Biography
Penni is an award-winning author of several novels for children and young adults. She brings more than twenty years’ experience as an editor, author and researcher to her academic research and teaching at Monash University. As well as writing fiction, she's applied her knowledge of young adult readerships to internationally recognised collaborative research in youth mental health. Her doctoral research involved designing and developing comics for use in youth mental health. This research has taken her to conferences around the world and has positively impacted the lives of young people through online mental health service delivery in Australia and globally.
