Jasmin Kirkbride

Dr Jasmin Kirkbride is a Lecturer in Creative Writing and Digital Technologies at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

Jasmin is a speculative fiction author. Her debut novel The Forest on the Edge of Time, is forthcoming from Tor (US) in February 2026. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines including Reactor, while her poetry has been published in places such as Presenceand Frogpond, and been shortlisted for the 2019 Museum of Haiku Literature Award.

Her research interests include hope in dystopian climate fiction, ‘alternative’ temporalities in environmental literature, and ecopoetics. Her current research is a creative-critical exploration of ecofeminist fungal fiction, with an emphasis on mycophilic novels – or ‘mushroompunk’. Her peer-reviewed articles have been published in journals including Comparative American Studies and LOGOS, and she co-edited 'Epochs, Ages, and Cycles', a Special Edition of the ASLE-UKI Journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.She has presented at multiple conferences, notably as keynote for the British Haiku Society Winter Gathering 2022 and the Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2025, and as a featured speaker for the British Mycological Society Autumn Open Meeting 2025. Previously, Jasmin was the Secretary and Podcast Co-Host for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI), and continues to be an active member. She was also the 2022 Research-in-Residence for the British Haiku Society, working on a creative archival project called Twisting Point: the evolution of haiku in the climate crisis.

Jasmin entered academia in 2018 with a view to teaching creative writing in universities, undertaking an MA Creative Writing: Prose Fiction at UEA. In 2019, also at UEA, she commenced a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing exploring radical hope in dystopian climate fiction. She passed her viva in 2023 with no corrections, and subsequently became a UEA Humanities Visiting Research Fellow and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Between 2022-2025, Jasmin was a Lecturer in Publishing at City, University of London teaching Publishing. Additionally, she holds a BA Classical Studies (2012) and an MA Ancient History (2013) from King’s College London.

Previously, Jasmin worked in publishing, notably as a book trade journalist for industry magazine BookBrunch and as the Publishing Director at Endeavour Media. As a fiction editor, she has worked with publishing houses from indie literary presses such as Boiler House Press and Weatherglass Books to commercial genre imprints such as Rebellion. This has included work on a Pulitzer-winner, a Booker-longlistee, BBC Books of the Week, and Amazon top ten bestsellers. She's worked with authors who’ve won the Caine Prize for African Writing and been shortlisted for the Booker International. Her journalistic work has appeared in Time Out and Publisher's Weekly amongst others, and she is the author of a four-book self-help series (Summersdale, 2016-2017), which is internationally available in multiple languages. She continued engaging with the publishing industry throughout her postgraduate studies, for instance via her CHASE-funded placement at the journal English, and is enthusiastic about nurturing the next generation of authors through teaching Creative Writing.

For more information, visit her website: www.jasminkirkbride.com