Jenny Mitchell

Jenny Mitchell is winner of the Poetry Book Awards 2021, the Bedford Prize, the Ware Prize and joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize 2019.

Her poems have been widely published and she has been nominated twice for the Forward Prize: Best Single Poem. The best-selling debut collection, ‘Her Lost Language’, is ‘One of 44 Poetry Books for 2019’ (Poetry Wales). Her second collection, ‘Map of a Plantation’, has been chosen as a ‘Literary Find’ (Irish Independent), and both books are on the syllabus of Manchester Metropolitan University.

Jenny is currently Poet-in-residence at Sussex University, her alma mater.