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. 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. In 2021 she received the Royal Geographical Society Ness Award for environmental writing.
Early life and education
Campbell was born in Exeter and grew up in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland. 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.
Residencies and fellowships
2010 Upernavik Museum, Greenland: Writer in Residence
2012 Doverodde Book Arts Festival, Denmark: Writer in Residence
2012 Síldarminjasafn (Herring Era Museum), Siglufjörður, Iceland: Writer in Residence 2013 Words Across Northumberland, UK: Writer in Residence 2013-14 Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford: Visual and Performing Artist in Residence 2015 Herhusið, Iceland: Writer in Residence 2015 Ilulissat Kunstmuseum, Greenland: Writer in Residence 2017 Jan Michalski Foundation, Switzerland: Environmental Writing Fellowship 2018-2019 Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany: Literature Fellowship 2022 Hawthornden Castle, Scotland: Fellowship 2023 Peter Szondi Institute, Free University of Berlin, Germany: Visiting Professor
Published works
How to Say 'I Love You' in Greenlandic, Bird Editions, 2011
Doverrode: Twenty Days in Denmark, Bird Editions, 2012
ITOQQIPPOQ, Bird Editions, 2014
Vantar | Missing, Bird Editions, 2014, Disko Bay, Enitharmon Editions, 2015, - shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Death of a Foster Son, Bird Editions, 2016, The Polar Tombola: A Book of Banished Words, Bird Editions, 2017, The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate, Simon and Schuster, 2018, - longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Navigations, Happenstance Press, 2020, Fifty Words for Snow, Elliott & Thompson Ltd, 2020, ISBN 978-1783964987 Uneasy Pieces, Guillemot Press, 2022, Thunderstone: Finding Shelter from the Storm, Elliott & Thompson Ltd, 2022,
Art Writing
Bill Jacklin: Graphics, co-authored with Jill Lloyd, Royal Academy Publications, 2016, ISBN 9781910350409
Collaborations and artist's editions
Dinner and a Rose: a homage to Patricia Highsmith - with Sarah Bodman, Bristol
Songbook of Rare Feelings: courage, humility, remorse - with Ensemble VONK, The Netherlands Tikilluarit - with Roni Gross and Peter Schell, Z'roah Press, New York City The Night Hunter - with Roni Gross and Peter Schell, Z'roah Press, New York City Song for the Small Hours - Incline Press, Oldham, 2022