Podcast with Penelope Green
Penelope Green is a freelance journalist and author. She has published three travel memoirs recounting her time in Italy – When In Rome, See Naples and Die, and the latest, Girl By Sea. It is the story of her life in Procida, an idyllic island looking over the Bay of Naples, and how she became part of the community through a common love of food.She started her writing career as a cadet journalist with The Australian newspaper and now writes regularly for Australian Gourmet Traveller, Australian House & Garden, Madison, Marie Claire, The West Australian’s Weekend Magazine and Scoop. She has written for Who Weekly and worked in the fashion industry as a publicist.
In 2002 she packed her bags and headed to Italy, where she wrote for The International Herald Tribune, Marie Claire, and Madison writing on Italian current affairs, and food and wine, before publishing her first book When in Rome, which became the best-selling travel book in Australia for 2005.
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