Camilla Nelson’s work explores the materiality of language - particularly in relation to the other-than-human - in page-based poetry, soundwork, installation and performance.

She is founding editor of Singing Apple Press, a small independent press that produces hand-crafted, limited edition poem-prints, books and other objects.

Her poetry collections include Apples & Other Languages (long-listed for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize, 2015; published by Knives Forks and Spoons, 2017), A Yarn Er Narrative (Contraband Books, 2019) and EPIC (Guillemot Press, 2021).

Camilla devises performance solo and in collaboration. The manuscript of Reading Movement, her collaboration with Khaled Barghouthi, was long-listed for The Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers (2016). Her collaboration with Rhys Trimble, Tidal Voices, was shortlisted for Swansea's Tidal Lagoon World-First Art Commission in association with Cape Farewell (2014). Her collaboration with sirenscrossing, becoming fungus, becoming forest, was commissioned for the Coventry Biennial 2021.

She curated The South West Poetry Tour (2016), A Mere Literary Fringe (2018), Radical Landscapes (2019) and Writing Bodies (2021). Fragments from her radio show, BECOMING, created for SoundArt FM, featured in the 2021 Vienna Biennale.

She has a PhD in Performance Writing from Falmouth University/Dartington College of Arts (2012) and is available for performances, lecturing, mentoring, workshops and editorial work upon request.