Jen Campbell
Jen Campbell is an award-winning poet and bestselling author of fourteen books for adults and children. Her most recent title, Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit, is a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Her books for adults include The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, The Girl Aquarium, The Bookshop Book, and the Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series. Her picture book trilogy Franklin and Luna, and middle-grade book The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers, are published by Thames & Hudson. She has won both an Eric Gregory Award and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and her books have been translated into twenty languages. An anthology she co-edited called Owning It: Tales from Our Disabled Childhoods is published by Faber Children's, and this has been shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2026, the 2026 SLA Information Book Award, and is a 2026 Read for Empathy Collection Choice.
Jen has worked in the book industry for twenty years, initially as a bookseller, and now as a freelance editor, content creator and disability advocate. She runs a Youtube channel where she talks about books, the history of fairy tales, and the representation of disability and disfigurement with a following of over 70,000. She also reviews books for TOAST clothing and Inclusive Books for Children.
Her books for adults include The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, The Girl Aquarium, The Bookshop Book, and the Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series. Her picture book trilogy Franklin and Luna, and middle-grade book The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers, are published by Thames & Hudson. She has won both an Eric Gregory Award and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, and her books have been translated into twenty languages. An anthology she co-edited called Owning It: Tales from Our Disabled Childhoods is published by Faber Children's, and this has been shortlisted for The Week Junior Book Awards 2026, the 2026 SLA Information Book Award, and is a 2026 Read for Empathy Collection Choice.
Jen has worked in the book industry for twenty years, initially as a bookseller, and now as a freelance editor, content creator and disability advocate. She runs a Youtube channel where she talks about books, the history of fairy tales, and the representation of disability and disfigurement with a following of over 70,000. She also reviews books for TOAST clothing and Inclusive Books for Children.
She grew up in a small village by the sea and now lives in London.
