Stef Penney (born 1965 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish filmmaker and novelist.
She grew up in the Scottish capital and turned to film-making after a degree in Philosophy and Theology from Bristol University.
She has also written and directed two short films; a BBC 10 x 10 starring Anna Friel and a Film Council Digital Short in 2002 starring Lucy Russell.
As Stef Penney suffered from agoraphobia at the time of writing this novel, she did all the research in the libraries of London and never visited Canada.
[2][3] She has subsequently written The Invisible Ones (2011) and Under A Pole Star (2016); the latter was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards.