Lucia Osborne-Crowley is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her news reporting and literary work have appeared in Granta, GQ, The Sunday Times, HuffPost UK, the Guardian, ABC News, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and others. She currently works as a courr reporter for Law360, a US newswire covering courts and crime across the world. She is also a trained lawyer. You can find her Wikipedia page here.

Her first book, I Choose Elena, was published in 2019 and has since been published in four territories and three languages.

My Body Keeps Your Secrets, Lucia’s second book, was published in September 2021, examines the secrets a body keeps, from gender identity, puberty and menstruation to sexual pleasure; to pregnancy or its absence; and to darker secrets of abuse, invasion or violation.  My Body Keeps Your Secrets was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize for Literature in 2022.

In her forthcoming book, The Lasting Harm: Witnessing The Trial Of Ghislaine Maxwell, Lucia follows the 2021 Maxwell trial with a focus on the survivors at the centre of this case who have been let down again and again, by abusers, by people who were supposed to protect them, by courts who supposedly delivered them justice, by the media who failed to believe them and sometimes by their own lawyers. The Lasting Harm will be published in May 2024.