Penny Boxall was born in 1987. She grew up in rural Aberdeenshire and Yorkshire, which gave her a fondness for hills. She holds an MA with distinction in Creative Writing (Poetry) from UEA. Her work was commissioned in 2012 for the WEYA festival on the theme of Treatise, and for the Oxfordshire Museum's exhibition Head over Heels, featuring hats and shoes. She won the 2010 Frederik van Eeden poetry competition and has been shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award. In 2010 she lived in Grasmere, Cumbria, where she was the Literature intern at The Wordsworth Trust. She now works in Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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