About Penelope Przekop
Penelope Przekop is a literary writer whose work moves through fiction, painting, poetry, essays, and memoir-fragments. Across forms, her work returns to the hidden self: inherited stories, private longing, faith, grief, art, memory, and the difficult work of becoming whole.
A Connected Body of Work
Penelope Przekop’s novels explore identity, family wounds, longing, faith, grief, and the hidden forces that shape a life. Her fiction is psychological and emotionally layered, often following characters who are caught between who they have been told to be and who they are struggling to become.
Her visual work extends the same inquiry. Through figurative expressionism, Penelope creates paintings that explore women’s inner lives: resilience, vulnerability, concealment, exposure, memory, and transformation. The paintings are not separate from the writing so much as another language for the same questions.
Alongside her creative work, Penelope has spent decades in pharmaceutical quality, systems, and leadership. That professional life informs her interest in structure, discipline, performance, and the visible systems people build around hidden human needs. It also shapes her nonfiction and process-based writing, including work on courage, quality, and creative construction.
Penelope’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and art spaces across the United States, Europe, and Central America. Her work has been acquired by museum collections in Italy, and she has received juried recognition for her painting. Her books include the novels Please Love Me, Aberrations, Centerpieces, and Dust, as well as nonfiction and writing-process work.
A Note on the Work
The books, paintings, poems, and essays collected here have been created across many years and many versions of a life. Some began as fiction, some as images, some as private fragments. Together, they form a body of work concerned with what people carry, what they hide, and what it takes to become whole.
NOW
Penelope is currently preparing the definitive edition of Please Love Me, a literary novel set in 1980s Shreveport about girlhood, religious certainty, emotional hunger, inherited shame, and the dangerous hope of being seen. She is also shaping a renewed online home for her books, paintings, essays, and selected archival work.
Connect
For updates, inquiries, press, or speaking requests, Penelope can be reached through the contact page.
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