Freya Sacksen

Freya Sacksen was awarded Master’s Degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Their published works include a Master’s Thesis on Terry Pratchett and the Arthurian, as well as poems in the Sidekick Books anthology 10 Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon and the DIRT Imprint pamphlet Loops written in collaboration with Clare Pollard. They also write for the ongoing hard sci-fi poetry collection Project Abeona and will be included in Calque Press’s collection Ragged Band of Travelers.

Their literary interests include sci-fi/fantasy, postcolonialism, texts and poetry that play with language and linguistics, and novels that try to tell stories only novels can. They like texts that play bricolage with existing material - Hamish Clayton’s Wulf retelling the Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer in the context of the Maori Land Wars for example, or Ella Minnow Pea basing its entire plot around the pangram “the quick brown fox”.

They volunteer working to restore the Cambridge Poetry Festival in their rapidly diminishing spare time, and contemplate picking up another hobby, before making angry goblin mutterings and hiding away with a surfeit of poetry books. Their favorite example of the Order lepidoptera is Tyria jacobaeae.