Martha Sprackland (born 1988) is a British writer.
Martha Sprackland is a writer, editor and translator from Spanish, born in Barnstaple in 1988, who grew up in Ainsdale, Merseyside.
Her debut collection of poems, Citadel, was published in 2020 by Liverpool University Press,[1][2][3][4] and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Costa Poetry Prize, and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize.
[10][11] Previously assistant poetry editor at Faber & Faber, Sprackland is the co-founder and editor of Offord Road Books, and was previously a co-founding editor of La Errante magazine and Cake magazine.
[12] Glass As Broken Glass (Rack Press, 2017) Milk Tooth (Rough Trade Books, 2018) Citadel (Liverpool University Press, 2020) 1999: Simon Elvin Award (Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award) winner 2003: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award runner-up 2005: Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award winner[13] 2014: Eric Gregory Award recipient 2019: Michael Marks Pamphlet Award shortlist, Milk Tooth 2020: Forward Prize for Best First Collection shortlist, Citadel 2020: Costa Prize for Poetry shortlist, Citadel 2021: Peirene Stevns Translation Prize shortlist[14] 2021: John Pollard International Poetry Prize shortlist, Citadel