Penny Grubb

Author and lecturer

Penny Grubb

Biography

Penny is a scientist and academic (Health Informatics), and currently Chair of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society which is the largest writers’ organisation in the world. 

A writer all her life, she penned her first story at age 4 and won her first writing competition at age 9.  In 2004 under the name Ellen Grubb she received an international  award, the Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger, and can be seen here giving her acceptance speech at the awards lunch. 

She has worked in a variety of jobs, having been on the inside of pathology labs, operating theatres and medical schools across Europe.

Working full time with one job in London, the other in Hull, in her spare time Penny writes crime novels and occasional articles for newspapers and magazines. 

She lives with her husband and a transient population of family members and animals large and small in an old farmhouse in a small East Yorkshire village.