Biography
Jenny Lester is a poet and features writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She has been published internationally in Breathe Magazine, The Font, and BBC The Social.
She won the Glasgow Women’s Library Poetry Slam 2020, was selected for the BBC Words First Talent program 2021, and appeared on the Young Women’s Movement’s 30 Under 30 list in 2023.
Poetry
Sexual Diamorphism in Birds, RSPB Scotland
The Cat of Frigiliana, Sylvia Magazine
Learning, The Font Literary Journal
Topple the Statue, Ink, Sweat & Tears
A Mermaid Returns to the Sea, Silk & Smoke
Features
Jenny is a regular features writer for Breathe Magazine. Her pieces have covered the overlooked beauty of pigeons, ghost writers to the dead, and the simple joy of echoes.
Let’s Go Fly A Kite, Breathe Magazine
One year of your twenties left, do it right, Young Women Lead
Dice, Decks & Discourse – Gender in Board Games, The F-Word
Performances
Jenny loves to perform her work and believes poetry should live out loud.
Watch a selection of her perfomances here.
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