Penny Dann (30 June 1964 – 20 December 2014) was a British children's book illustrator and creator of The Secret Fairy.
[1][3] She studied visual communication at the Brighton College of Art,[3] where a tutor, Raymond Briggs, "encouraged her to develop her character drawings," which "became the basis of her later work".
[1] Following graduation, she remained in Brighton, though she lived in Sydney and Melbourne in the 1990s and early 2000s.
After returning to Brighton, she met Tom Sanderson, "whom she married a few days before her death".
[1] The first book of Dann's Secret Fairy series sold over two million copies worldwide.