Vanessa Ackerman trained as an actor and has worked for companies such as the RSC and the Royal Court. She has written 5 full length plays and was a 22/23 Mercury Theatre Playwright. Her poems have been published in Icarus, Dreich, Propel, Anthropocene, Cephalo Press and Tears in the Fence among many others. She is a Best of the Net Nominee and her debut Small Rebellions was a winner of the 2023 Dreich Classic Chapbook Competition.

Vanessa Ackerman's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.