Jackson Phoenix Nash (he/him) is a queer transgender poet and lecturer from Essex. His work explores life as a trans man, working class identity, mental health, and the body. His writing has been published in Magma, Propel, Under the Radar, Rattle, Channel, and many more. His poems have also been included in the anthologies Ware Poets Competition Anthology, eff-able, Transmasculine Poetics, and Propel Anthology: 2022 - 2024.

In 2025 he won third prize in the Magma poetry competition and was highly commended in the Ware Poets Competition. His poem ‘Call me Boy on Saturdays’ won the Rattle Ekphrastic Competition. Some People are Trains, Jackson’s debut pamphlet, was published by Little Betty in 2024. He was diagnosed in adulthood with ADHD and dyslexia, an experience which has been both challenging and liberating, and which continues to shape his creative process. He has a PhD in Gender Studies and teaches at the Open University.  

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