A versatile, witty and candid writer, Penny Pepper’s memoir, First in the World Somewhere charts an extraordinary life in the indie-punk music scene from Thatcher’s brutal 80s to Blair’s empty Brit Pop 90s - published by Unbound. As a poet, she performs across the UK and once further afield, in New York. Her first poetry collection, ‘Come Home Alive”, is published by Burning Eye Books this year. In September 2014 her one-woman spoken word show, Lost in Spaces, premiered at Soho Theatre before touring the UK. She wrote the taboo-breaking book Desires Reborn in 2012 and in 2013 she won a Creative Futures Literary Award. She also won an Erotic Oscar in 1999, scarcely met Jeremy Paxman while on Channel 4’s Brexit Debate and once had a Christmas card from Morrissey. She writes regularly for the Guardian and guests on TV & Radio. “Penny Pepper’s work is a virtuoso display of invention, wit and courage. It’s thought-provoking and funny and moving and makes us see the world differently” – Margaret Drabble, novelist, biographer, critic.