Penny Pepper

Agent: Abi Fellows

Penny Pepper is an award-winning author, poet & disabled activist whose stories explore the disability narrative through provocation, humour and wisdom. Her memoir, First in The World Somewhere, was published in 2017; her poetry collection, Come Home Alive, in 2019, with another due in 2024. Her work features in Hemingway Shorts 2021, Mslexia and Representology, and she has also developed projects for TV.

​She is a monthly columnist for Byline Times, is a passionate voice for pushing the neglected disability narrative in fiction, and is known for her vintage-punky dress sense and lifelong campaigning around social justice. Her genre-breaking novel, Nancy Jones and the Show of Wonders, awaits a brave publisher or TV producer while she works on her next, The Widow of Rock-o-Nore. She lives in Hastings.

Books by Penny Pepper

  • Come Home Alive (Burning Eye Books)

  • First In the World Somewhere (Unbound)

  • Desires Reborn (Bejamo Press)

  • Hemingway Shorts (Hemingway Foundation)

  • Dusk – Contributor (Arachne Press)

  • Bus Fair: Collected Writings on London's Most-Loved Transport (Contributor – AA Publishing)

  • The World’s Wife: Mrs Joseph Merrick (Mxlexia)