Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a British–Australian writer, living in London. She has written two books about how trauma affects the body.

Early life and education

Osborne-Crowley was born in London and raised in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia. She was a junior gymnastics champion.[1] She graduated with a degree in international studies from the University of Sydney in 2013 and with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of New South Wales in 2018.[2] In 2023, she was accepted into the PhD creative writing program at the University of East Anglia.[3]

Career

Osborne-Crowley works as a journalist, legal affairs correspondent, and writer.[2] She first published I Choose Elena in 2020. The book is a short memoir "in which she recounts her experience of suffering a violent rape as a teenager, leading to years of chronic illness, anxiety and an eating disorder."[4] In My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) "as well as telling her own story, she draws from more than 100 interviews to explore how women and non-binary people are defined by and fighting for their bodies. [. . .] a hybrid of academic prose, memoir and reportage".[4] This book won the Somerset Maugham Prize for literature in 2022.[5] Her third book, The Lasting Harm, will be published by HarperCollins in 2024.[6]

Publications

  • I Choose Elena: On Trauma, Memory and Survival. Mood Indigo Book 2. London: Indigo, 2020. ISBN 9781999683399.[7]
  • My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation. London: Indigo, 2021. ISBN 9781911648130.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "'My body started going rogue': How sexual assault derailed the life of a champion gymnast". ABC Radio. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  2. 1 2 "About". luciaosbornecrowley.com. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  3. ↑ @@LuciaOC_ (22 July 2023). "This barbie is doing a PhD in creative writing at UEA, supervised by one of her favourite novelists, the totally totally totally brilliant and unbelievably talented @St_Bishop_❤️❤️❤️" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. 1 2 "My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – on women's health and trauma". The Guardian. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. ↑ Reed, Martin (1 June 2022). "Graphic novel wins at the 2022 Society of Authors' Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "The Lasting Harm (Hardback)". Waterstones. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley book review". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Author's follow-up tackles trauma". The West Australian. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  9. ↑ Mitchell, Natasha (26 November 2021). "In a frank memoir, a writer tackles how trauma shows up in the body". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2022.


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