Dillon Jaxx

Dillon Jaxx is a queer, chronically ill writer. Their work explores the aftermath of trauma, illness and grief as well as the meaning of home, family, identity and language. Their work has been published in Poetry Wales, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review and The Alchemy Spoon amongst others. Dillon has been placed and commended in numerous competitions and won the Rebecca Swift Writing Prize 2022, the Brotherton prize 2024, the Wolverhampton poetry competition 2024, the Live Canon International Poetry Competition 2025, the Artemisia Arts Prize 2025. Their debut collection like starlings falling is published by Nine Arches.