Penny Blackburn

Penny Blackburn (she/her) lives in North East England but is originally from Yorkshire. Her poetry has been published by, among others, Poetry Society News, Lighthouse, Dreamcatcher, Ink Sweat and Tears, Spelt and Riggwelter and she was awarded second place in the Ver Poetry Competition 2022. Her pamphlet from Wild Pressed Books, A Taste for Bread, was published in 2021 and her first collection with Yaffle Press, Gaps Made of Static, comes in autumn 2023.  Penny is co-host of Cullerpoets poetry stanza and host of Under the Arches spoken word evening in Tynemouth and is on Facebook and Twitter as @penbee8.