J. R. Carpenter is an artist, poet, and Lecturer in Performance Writing in the School of English at University of Leeds. Her digital poem The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her debut poetry collection An Ocean of Static was highly commended for the Forward Prizes 2018. Her hybrid print-digital project This is a Picture of Wind was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and featured in the British Library’s Digital Storytelling exhibition at the British Library 2023. Her interdisciplinary performance project An Island of Sound, created in collaboration with musician Jules Rawlinson, has been performed in Edinburgh, London, Edmonton, and Coimbra. An academic article written into the libretto of An Island of Sound was published in Media + Environment. Her print poetry collection, Measures of Weather, was The Observer’s poetry book of the month February 2025 and was shortlisted for the Laurel Prize for Ecopoetry. Her most recent collection, pause, is out now from Broken Sleep Books.