George Penny is a best-selling author with 12 books in print and counting. She is a  voracious speed-reader, an amateur polymath and researches obscure facts for fun. 

George has lived an eccentric life spanning over fifty locations across the globe. She's been chased by a rock wielding mob, was nearly rammed off the road in a high-speed chase, dodged a spitting cobra, has been bitten by deadly spiders and has stepped on a stonefish. She's studied fine art, sociology, gender theory, cultural theory and psychotherapy. She may one day finish her PHD on energy politics.

She will fight to her death for a morning cup of tea, would cuddle an entire zoo if she could (even the snakes), loves debating philosophy, enjoys world cinema, absurd anime and new music every day. 

She is utterly obsessed with sharks and would like to be eaten on her hundredth birthday by a low-flying great white.