Martha Sprackland

Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator.

Citadel (Pavilion, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Award; a new collection is forthcoming in 2027. Martha teaches for Arvon, where she is also a Trustee.

Martha’s translations from Spanish include poems and stories by Ana Gorría, Gladys Mendía, Verónica Viola Fisher and Sara Mesa.

In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Peirene–Stevns Translation Prize for fiction.

Her new translation of sixteenth-century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross, Dark Night: Poems and Selected Prose, is published by Penguin Classics (2026).