Penny Newell is a poet and doctoral researcher based as King's College London, where she teaches literary criticism and cultural studies across the departments of English, Comparative Literature and Culture, Media and Creative Industries. Her doctoral project explored the conceptual history of clouds, extending from Ancient Greece to the cloud computing industries. Her academic articles have featured inPerformance Research (Routledge/Taylor & Francis), Excursions(Sussex University) and Platform (Royal Holloway), with an article forthcoming in Cultural Politics (Duke University Press) and a book chapter entitled 'The Meta-Poetics of Creative Labour' forthcoming inThe Handbook for Creativity at Work (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018).

Her poetry and literary criticism has featured in The TLS, The Cardiff Review, Alien Mouth, The Still Point Journal and Letterpress Poets Anthology (Palewell Press, 2015), amongst others. She has been the recipient of several national writing commissions, working with organisations and institutions such as Tate Britain, Somerset House, The Courtauld Institute, BBC Radio York and this is tomorrow: Contemporary Art Magazine. She is currently writing on commission for Lakes Ignite 2018 festival, as a recipient of Arts Council England funding.

Penny is currently a reader for Frontier Poetry, where she is reviewing submissions to their 'New Voices' category. In her professional service at King's, she co-founded the King's English Department Blog and Research with Reach: Valuing Ideas Beyond the Academe. She is a member of the Queer@Kings research network, and in 2014-16 co-convenor of City-Centric: Interdisciplinary Urban Studies reading group, with a focus on gender and sexuality.