PEN HANLEY is a communications expert with over twenty-five years of experience as an author, researcher and editor.
Her published work spans a breadth of achievement in fiction—including her latest novel After She Left (Impact Press, 2019) and 20 short stories—and major non-fiction commissions including Inspiring Australians, a history of fifty years of the Churchill Memorial Trust (2015) and Creative Lives for the National Library of Australia (2009).
She holds an Honours degree in English (ANU) and a PhD in Communications (University of Canberra). Download Pen Hanley’s CV and publications. See short CV.
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After She Left is a novel about love, loss and second chances. A thematic thread running through this engaging narrative is the endurance of art over politics. . | |
BITE magazine a journal of the ACT Writers Centre has an article about the writing of the novel plus an excerpt. See here. | |
Browse Inspiring Australians, Pen Hanley’s most recent work of non-fiction—view the Contents page and read an extract ‘Blessed are the cheesemakers’. | |
Follow Pen Hanley’s blog to keep in touch with her occasional pieces and read more about her critical reviews, press articles and short stories. | |
Wild Women is a novel written as part of Pen Hanley’s doctoral study of women artists over historical time. Read her essay ‘Wild Things’ on the interplay of research, writing and life. |