The Howling Girl: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff

Laurie Penny is a writer and journalist. She writes forVice, the Guardian and many other publications, and is acolumnist and Contributing Editor at the New Statesmanmagazine. She was the youngest person to be shortlistedfor the Orwell Prize for political writing on her blog ‘PennyRed’. She has reported on radical politics, protest, digitalculture and feminism from around the world, working withactivists from the Occupy movement and the Europeanyouth uprisings. She has 160,000 followers on Twitter and in 2012 won the British Media Awards’ ‘Twitter PublicPersonality of the Year’ prize. Laurie is a nerd, a nomadand an activist. She is thirty years old and lives in London.

-