Penny, Laurie

Laurie Penny is a writer and journalist. She writes for" Vice", the "Guardian" and many other publications, is a columnist and Contributing Editor at the "New Statesman" magazine and Editor-at-Large at cult New York literary project "The New Inquiry". At the age of 23 she was the youngest person to be shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing for her blog 'Penny Red' which, like her first feminist book, "Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism", was a word-of-mouth hit. She has reported on radical politics, protest, digital culture and feminism from around the world, working wi...