Laurie Penny (1986) is a British journalist, blogger, author and commentator. A columnist and reporter for The Independent, she has written for the New Statesman, The Guardian, The Nation, Salon and many others, she is a contributing editor at The New Inquiry. She published Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (Zer0 books, 2011) and *Penny R*ed: Notes from a New Age of Dissent (Pluto Press, 2011).