“I like her and her savage red pen of justice” – Warren Ellis

Laurie Penny is, in no particular order: a journalist, an author, a feminist, a Londoner, a reprobate, an activist, a hedonist, a drinker of too much tea, a believer in the ultimate goodness of human beings, twenty-five years old, and a reformed smoker. She is a regular writer for the New Statesman,  the Guardian and the Independent, and has contributed to The Nation, Al-Jazeera, Alternet, Jezebel, Red Pepper and the Evening Standard. She is the author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (2011) and Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent (2011) She makes regular speaking appearances, has presented Channel 4′s Dispatches and been on the panel of the BBC’s Any Questions and Young Voter’s Question Time. Her blog, ‘Penny Red’, was shortlisted for the Orwell prize in 2010.