Jack Thacker was born in 1989 and brought up on a farm in Herefordshire. He studied English at the University of York and completed a PhD at the University of Bristol.

His poetry has appeared in numerous print and online magazines, including Magma, PN Review, Stand, Blackbox Manifold, The Clearing and Caught by the River, as well as on BBC Radio 4. In 2016, he won the Charles Causley International Poetry Competition. He has been the writer in residence at the Museum of English Rural Life and at Lighthouse Arts Centre.

His debut pamphlet-length collection is Handling (Two Rivers Press, 2018). He lives in Bristol.