About Jenny Pagdin

Jenny Pagdin’s first collection, The Snow Globe came out with Nine Arches Press in 2024. Her pamphlet Caldbeck was published by Eyewear in 2017, shortlisted for the Mslexia pamphlet competition and listed by the Poetry Book Society. Jenny lives in Norwich with her family, where she works in the voluntary sector. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a BA in English from Oxford University. Her poems have been Highly Commended and shortlisted in the Bridport Prize 2023, and won second prize, highly commended and the Norfolk Prize in the Café Writers Competition. Jenny was also longlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s 2018 Women’s Poetry Prize. Her work is featured in New Welsh Review, Smoke, Magma, Ambit, Spoonfeed, Wild Court, The Stand, Finished Creatures, Interpreter’s House, Ink, Sweat & Tears and Emma Press and Mum Press anthologies.

Short biography

Jenny Pagdin’s first collection The Snow Globe was published by Nine Arches Press in 2024. Her pamphlet Caldbeck, came out with Eyewear in 2017, and was shortlisted for the Mslexia pamphlet competition. Her poems have been Highly Commended and shortlisted in the Bridport Prize 2023, and have won second prize, the Norfolk prize and Commended in the Café Writers competition, as well as longlisting for the Rebecca Swift Women’s Poetry Prize. Jenny’s work is widely published in magazines including Magma, Ambit, Wild Court, The Stand, Finished Creatures and Ink, Sweat & Tears as well as an Emma Press anthology. www.jennypagdin.co.uk