Penny Boxall's debut poetry collection, Ship of the Line, won the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award for Scottish poets under 30 and a Writer’s Residency at Gladstone’s Library. She is a 2019 Northern Writers’Awards winner. She won the 2018 Mslexia/PBS Poetry Competition, judged by Carol Ann Duffy, and she was shortlisted for the 2019 Alpine Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in The Sunday Times, The Dark Horse, The North, The Rialto, The Scotsman, Magma and Mslexia, and were highly commended in the Forward Prizes in 2014 and the 2019 Bridport Prize. Her second collection, Who Goes There?, was published by Valley Press in 2018. She is currently working on a collaboration with renowned woodblock artist Naoko Matsubara. She was a 2017 Hawthornden Fellow, and has been resident at the Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland and Cove Park, Argyll and Bute. She has taught poetry on the MA at Oxford Brookes University and the Poetry School. Having worked for several years in museums, she is currently Visiting Research Fellow in the Creative Arts at Merton College, Oxford.