Penny Turner lives in a village in Northern Greece. She has an MA Honours in English Literature and Language from the University of Aberdeen, and then qualified as a teacher of Drama, English, Health Education and Sport for secondary school pupils.
Eventually she ended up teaching horse riding and is a British Horse Society Assistant Instructor and British Horse Society Equestrian Tourism Centre Manager.
She has ridden her horse, George, about 8,000 kms over the Greek mountains and as a result was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and gained A John Muir Trust Conserver Award, and is a Member of The Long Riders Guild.
She has won several writing awards including BBC Wildlife Nature Writer of the Year. She writes poetry, some of which has been published.
In 2012 she was a winner in an International Nature Photography contest.