Rowan Dorothy Pelling (born 17 January 1968) is a British journalist, broadcaster, writer and stand-up comedian who first achieved note as the editor (or "editrice", to use her term) of a monthly literary/erotic magazine, the Erotic Review.
Pelling was educated at Walthamstow Hall, a day independent school for girls in the centre of the commuter town of Sevenoaks in Kent in South East England, followed by St Hugh's College at the University of Oxford, from which she graduated in 1991 with a degree in English Literature.
[1] She went on to work for GQ magazine, where she met her future husband Angus Mackinnon.
She was a judge of the 2004 Man Booker Prize[4] and is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph.
In 2017 Pelling launched a new magazine, The Amorist, branded as "for devotees of love & passion".