Rowan Pelling

Rowan Pelling is a journalist and broadcaster. She worked at Private Eye prior to taking over the magazine Erotic Review (which takes a literary approach to sexuality and eroticism) in 1997, expanding it from a 16-page quarterly to a glossy monthly, and editing it for eight years. Additionally, she edits The Decadent Handbook, is a patron of the Cambridge Wordfest, and was a judge for the Man Booker Prize in 2004. She now writes a weekly comment column in The Daily Telegraph, and is the sex columnist for the Daily Mail.