Pen Pearson

Pen Pearson is a professor of creative writing at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Her book of poems, Poetry as Liturgy, was published in 2010, and her first novel, Bloomsbury’s Late Rose, came out last year. The novel tells the story of the artistic Mew sisters – Charlotte, a poet, and Anne, a painter – making their way as spinsters living in genteel poverty in Edwardian London.