Penny Pepper is an acclaimed wheelchair-using author, poet, performer & disabled activist. A genre-defying and versatile writer, Penny Pepper’s work is a blend of the quirky and the saucy, with a focus on the examination of difference, inequality and identity. She tells stories we haven’t heard, connecting her experience of the world to the universal experience, making others see the world differently.

Praise for Penny

'A wonderful memoir, this is the great untold tale of our times told with passion, humour and a compellingly visceral energy. Essential reading.'-Jake Arnott, best selling British novelist and dramatist, author of The Long Firm and six other novels, on reviewing “First in the World Somewhere”.

"Penny Pepper's work is a virtuoso display of wit, invention and courage. It's thought-provoking and funny and moving and makes us see the world differently" - Dame Margaret Drabble

Penny is also a singer-song writer who recorded under the name Kata Kolbert and Spiral Sky (1992-97).

Passion and politics, wit and wickedness feature strongly in her work.