Penny Tangey

Penny Tangey writes humorous books for young people. Her middle-grade novel As Fast As I Can won the Readings Children’s Book Prize and the Queensland Literary Awards Children’s Book Award. Her most recent book, Music Camp, is about kids finding camaraderie through music in the climate crisis. She has worked as a researcher for television quiz shows Hard Quiz and The Chase, but she’s still terrible at trivia. She now works as a librarian.