Jenny Mitchell is currently the Inaugural Poet-in-the-Community at the British Library, working with the Engagement Team. She’s recently been nominated as Best of the Net 2025, won the Ink, Sweat and Tears May 2024 Poetry Competition, the Shooter Poetry Competition in 2023, the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize in 2022 and the Poetry Book Awards in 2021 for her second collection, Map of a Plantation. The prize-winning debut collection, Her Lost Language, is one of 44 Poetry Books for 2019 (Poetry Wales), and her latest collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on the US podcast Poetry Unbound. She was Poet-in-Residence at Sussex University in 2024, and Artist in Association at Birkbeck from 2021-22.
