about & contact

Personal Bio

JP Seabright (she/they) has worked at a Butlins Holiday Camp, the British Library, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Médecins Sans Frontières, though fortunately not all at the same time.

They have spent a summer winding copper wire around diodes in a component factory, another summer planning the IT infrastructure of the London Olympic Park and a different summer working in Bangladesh in the monsoon season.

JP has travelled extensively, spending two years back-packing across South East Asia and the Antipodes, living and working in Amsterdam for three years, and embarking on lengthy campervan tours of both North Eastern Europe and its South Western corner, despite being a fairly incompetent driver.

They are an avid music lover and record collector, and on one memorable night played the drums in front of 80,000 people at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games. Oh, and they once appeared in a Bollywood film. 

JP may or may not have been offered a job with The Security Service but can’t say anything about it because of the Official Secrets Act. Apparently, they have now “settled down” and are married with a daughter and living in London.

They remain deeply uncomfortable writing about themselves in the third person. (But are inordinately fond of parentheses, and justified text. This may be a neurodivergent thing.)

They can be contacted via the links to Twitter or email below.

Writing Bio (long version)

JP Seabright (she/they) is a queer disabled writer living in London. They have five solo pamphlets published: Fragments from Before the Fall (Beir Bua Press, 2021 republished by Sunday Mornings At The River, 2023), No Holds Barred  (Lupercalia Press, 2022), The Insomniac’s Almanac published in collaboration with kith books to raise funds for The Albert Kennedy Trust and The Trevor Project (2023), Traum/A (fifthwheelpress, 2023) and what are you afraid of? <The LaMDA Sonnets> (Querencia Press, 2024); and four collaborative works GenderFux, (Nine Pens Press, 2022) and MACHINATIONS (Trickhouse Press, 2022), MotherFlux (Nine Pens Press, 2024) and Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust Poetry, 2024). They published their first collection White Cloud Over Purple (Atomic Bohemian) in 2024.

Also available is Be ∞ Cause, a digital microchap published by Ghost City Press (2022), and the self-published experimental chapbooks Movable Typos (2022), and Davy Jones’ Locker (2023).

JP explores themes of gender, sexuality, trauma, technology and the climate crisis in her work spanning poetry, prose, experimental and audio/visual pieces. Their pamphlets have been shortlisted (twice) for Best Collaborative Work in the Saboteur Awards, as well prose and poetry being nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and (twice) a Forward Prize.

JP has published widely in the UK, Europe, US, Canada, and Middle East, with over 200 publications of poetry, prose, vispo, film poetry and other hybrid and experimental work, in journals such as Rialto, Magma, One Hand Clapping, Fourteen Poems, Fly On The Wall Press, Culture Matters, Under the Radar, 14 Magazine, Propel and Poetry Wales. She has also been widely anthologised.

She has performed at venues as diverse as Margate Bookie Festival, Primadonna Festival, the Vagina Museum, Fakenham Literary Festival, Polari Literary Salon, Soho Poly Theatre, and the National Poetry Library.

JP was Editor at Full House Literary Magazine for two years, and they are currently co-editor and organiser of the Arts Council England-funded project eff-able. 

More of their work can be found at https://jpseabright.com, via Twitter/X @errormessage and @jpseabright everywhere else.

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