Annette Pehnt (born 1967 in Cologne) is a German writer and literary critic.

After graduating from school in 1986 Pehnt performed voluntary social work in Belfast.

After her master's degree and the first national examination in 1994, graduation followed in 1997 at the University of Freiburg with a work on Irish literature.

[2] Since 1992 Pehnt, married and mother of three children, has lived as a literature critic and self-employed author in Freiburg and teaches at the University of Hildesheim, where she leads the Institut für Literarisches Schreiben & Literaturwissenschaft.

[3] Pehnt wrote several children books.