Rowan Dorothy Pelling (born January 17 1968 in Kent) is a female British journalist and broadcaster, who first achieved note as the second editor (or "editrice", to use her term) of a monthly literary/erotic magazine (now quarterly), entitled the Erotic Review. She studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and after graduating worked at the satirical magazine Private Eye.[1] She was invited to join the Erotic Review, a spin-off of the Erotic Print Society, by its founder and first editor, Jamie Maclean, in 1997, and transformed what had been a foolscap newsletter into a popular magazine whose circulation peaked at 30,000 plus. Rowan Pelling has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines, including regular columns for the Independent on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday, GQ and Jack. She was a judge of the 2004 Man Booker Prize.[2]
