Laurie Penny
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Penny in 2016.
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| Born | Laura Barnett 28 September 1986 Westminster, London, England |
| Occupation | Columnist, blogger, author |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
Laurie Penny (born 28 September 1986) is an English feminist columnist and author. She has contributed articles to publications such as The Guardian and the New Statesman, and has written two books on feminism.
Penny was born in London, the daughter of the late lawyer Ray Barnett. She is of Irish, Jewish, and Maltese descent and, in personal comment on her website, described herself as an "atheist child of a lapsed Jew and a lapsed Catholic". She grew up in Brighton and Lewes. Penny attended the independent school Brighton College on a scholarship. She has written about her hospitalisation at age 17 for anorexia and subsequent recovery.
Penny studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 2008 with a 2:1. Whilst a student, she joined and performed in a burlesque troupe, and appeared in amateur dramatic productions with the Oxford University Light Entertainment Society, of which she was a committee member. She then completed her NCTJ journalism training certificate in London.
Penny's blog, "Penny Red", was launched in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010. She began her career as a staff writer at One in Four magazine and then worked as a reporter and sub-editor for the socialist newspaper Morning Star. She has written columns and features for several publications, and is a columnist for the New Statesman and regular contributor to The Guardian.
In April 2011, Penny presented the Channel 4 Dispatches programme "Cashing In on Degrees", and appeared on the same channel's satirical current affairs programme 10 O'Clock Live and BBC Two's Newsnight.
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