PENNY WATSON is a dachshund-lover, botanist, and award-winning author of quirky fiction. Titles include THE KLAUS BROTHERS SERIES, LUMBERJACK IN LOVE, APPLES SHOULD BE RED (finalist for the CoRWA Award of Excellence), and A TASTE OF HEAVEN (winner of 2016 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award).

She has presented writing workshops all over New England, and in 2013 she co-hosted the Indie Author Symposium, a two-day conference for self-published authors.

Penny has an A.B. from Vassar College and an M.S. from Cornell University.

She lives with her Filipino-American family outside of Boston.