Jackie Taylor is a Cornwall-based writer of short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and hybrid forms. She is interested in our contested rural edgelands, ageing and care, and approaches to writing climate crisis. Her work has appeared in Mslexia, Inkfish, Spelt, and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of interlinked short stories, Strange Waters, was published by Arachne Press in 2021. She graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2023 with an MLitt in Creative Writing with Distinction.

‘I will be using my time at Cove Park to focus on botánica, an extended prose poem set in a future-world tropical garden, a place of environmental decay which also offers hope for new ways of living.’