Boxall graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry).
[4][5] Boxall's first poetry collection, Ship of the Line, was published by (Eyewear, 2014) and reissued in a new edition in 2018 by Valley Press.
Her poem, The Wedding List, won the Mslexia/PBS Women's Poetry Competition 2018.
[6] Boxall collaborated with woodblock artist Naoko Matsubara, in In Praise of Hands: Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara - Poems by Penny Boxall, published by the Ashmolean Museum in 2021.
Her latest poetry collection, 'Lights Out' won a New Writing North Award and a grant from the Authors' Foundation.