Penny Pepper

Penny Pepper is an award-winning author, poet, and activist whose stories explore the disability narrative through provocation and humour. Her memoir, First in The World Somewhere, was published in 2017. Penny’s poetry collection, Come Home Alive, was published in 2018; the 21st anniversary edition of her collection of erotic disability fiction, Desires Reborn, in 2024. Her other work features in Elemental (2024), Hemingway Shorts (2021), Poet Town (2025) and Mslexia. She was longlisted for the Writers & Artists Short Story Competition 2021, and shortlisted in 2026.

Penny’s articles feature in Byline Times, The Guardian and, more recently, The Bookseller, via The Royal Literary Fund. Penny lives in St Leonards-on-Sea.