Sam Dodd has been a literature sector arts administrator for over a decade, coming to us with experience from The Poetry Society, First Story, Prison Reading Groups, Free Word, and English PEN. Sam is also a writing mentor for Arkbound specialising in working-class, queer and female voices, a landworker at Spitalfields City Farm, and a trustee for Spread the Word writer development agency. She co-founded and then project managed intergenerational community engagement life writing project, CityLife Stories, from 2014 to 2024.

What I do:

As Operations Manager I look after the day-to-day operations of the PTC, including bookkeeping, banking, HMRC, HR, Companies House, Charity Commission, budgets and financial reports; systems, suppliers and services; and board/governance organisation and administration.

You can contact Sam at sam@poetrytranslation.org.