Nancy Campbell | |
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Born | February 12, 1978 Exeter, England |
Occupation | Poet and essayist, printmaker |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Education | University of Oxford |
Subject | Landscape, Art Writing |
Notable works | The Library of Ice
Disko Bay Thunderstone |
Notable awards | RGS Ness Award 2021 |
For the American lawyer, see Nancy Duff Campbell.
Nancy Campbell is a British poet, non-fiction writer and publisher of artist's books. Her first collection of poetry, Disko Bay (2015), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.[1] Other works include The Library of Ice (2018) and Fifty Words for Snow (2020). In 2018, she was appointed Canal Laureate by the Poetry Society and the Canal & River Trust.[2] In 2021 she received the Royal Geographical Society Ness Award for environmental writing.[3]
Campbell was born in Exeter and grew up in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland.[4] She studied English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1996-9 before training in letterpress printing and typefounding at Barbarian Press, and The New York Center for Book Arts. She subsequently worked for Book Works in London, and specialised in selling fine printing and writers' archives at the antiquarian book dealer Bertram Rota in Covent Garden.[5]