Jo Dixon is a poet, critic and academic living in Nottingham. She is Lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University. Her debut poetry collection, Purl, was published by Shoestring Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared in a range of publications, including New Walk, The Interpreter's House, Furies: A Poetry Anthology of Women Warriors (For Books’ Sake), In Transit: Poems of Travel (The Emma Press, 2018), South Bank Poetry, Places of Poetry: Mapping the Nation in Verse (One World, 2020) and Brittle Star. Her debut poetry pamphlet, A Woman in the Queue, was published by Melos Press in 2016.

In 2021, her poetry was longlisted in The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2021 (judged by Daljit Nagra) https://www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2021/04/14/nature-and-place-2021-winners-announced/

Her flash fiction story, 'Clipped' was longlisted for the Reflex International Flash Fiction Competition Summer 2021 https://www.reflexfiction.com/summer-2021-longlist/

Jo has read her work in a variety of venues across the East Midlands, London and Estonia. She has delivered a series of creative-critical writing workshops in Estonia, where she has also read her poems alongside their Estonian translations. She has worked on poetry projects with Creswell Crags Heritage and Centre and Museum, Bilborough Sixth Form College, Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Ann’s Allotments and Nature in Mind (Framework Housing Association).