Penny Boxall

From https://pennyboxall.wordpress.com:
Penny Boxall is the author of three poetry collections: Ship of the Line, Who Goes There? (Valley Press, 2018) and, with woodblock artist Naoko Matsubara, In Praise of Hands (Ashmolean Museum, 2020). Shewon the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, the Mslexia/PBS Women’s Poetry Competition 2018, and a 2019 Northern Writers’ Award.
She is a Royal Literary Fund Bridge Fellow, working with sixth-form students in schools in Oxford and surrounding areas. She was the 2022/3 Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge, following two years as the RLF Fellow at the University of York. In 2019 she was Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College, University of Oxford.
In July-August 2023 she was UNESCO Cities of Literature writer-in-residence in Kraków, Poland. This followed a residency in City of Literature Tartu, Estonia, in 2022. She is currently working with Estonian poet Maarja Pärtna and sound-artist Liis Ring on a collaborative project for Tartu European Capital of Culture 2024, alongside an installation of poems in hiking cabins along the Nordlandsruta for Bodø Capital of Culture (Norway).
‘Replaying the Tape’, her collaboration with palaeontologist Dr Frankie Dunn and percussionist Dr Jane Boxall, premiered in November 2023 in New York.
She is completing a new poetry collection with support from the Authors’ Foundation, and is the 2023-2024 Writer in Residence at Wytham Woods, University of Oxford, working on a sequence of poems about soil and layers of history.