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A Note on the Author

Laurie Penny was born in London in 1986 and grew up on the Internet. She studied English Literature at Wadham College, Oxford, and in 2010 her blog
Penny Red
was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing. She is the Contributing Editor at
New Statesman
magazine, Editor-at-Large at the
New Inquiry
, and is known for reporting on protest and social movements. She is the author of
Meat Market: Female Flesh under Capitalism
(2010), a collection of her columns,
Penny Red: Notes from a New Age of Dissent
(2011), and
Discordia: Six Nights in Crisis Athens
(with art by Molly Crabapple, 2012). She currently has some 85,000 followers on Twitter. When she isn’t hunched over a laptop, Laurie enjoys lurking in the back of goth clubs and drinking tea with reprobates.

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