Penny Boxall (UK)

Penny Boxall is a poet, children’s writer, and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow who is interested in the poetry of museums, and how we shape stories from objects. A graduate of the MA in Creative Writing from UEA (Norwich), she won the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (Scotland’s largest poetry prize) with her debut collection, Ship of the Line. Her fourth poetry book, The Curiosities, was published in 2024. She was 2023-4 writer-in-residence at the University of Oxford’s Wytham Woods and (in 2019) Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford. She has held residencies in the UK, Denmark, Switzerland, Estonia, Poland, Iceland, Norway and Latvia. Her debut novel for children, Letty and the Mystery of the Golden Thread, is published by Puffin, and was Blackwell’s Book of the Month. She has collaborated with artists Naoko Matsubara and Sally Dod, writer Marja Pärtna, composers Liis Ring and Jane Boxall, and filmmaker Bevis Bowden.