Penny Simpson

Website: http://www.pennysimpson.com

Penny Simpson is a novelist and short story writer. She worked as a journalist specialising in the arts, before winning Barclays/TMA Theatre Critic of the Year.

Her assignments took her to post-war Croatia to work on a production of The Tempest set on a Dalmatian island and to Nikko, Japan, where she wrote about the yabusame horseback archers. Penny’s short story collection is DOGdays; her first novel was The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum, followed by The Deer Wedding.