Lucia Osborne-Crowley

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. 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. In 2023, she was accepted into the PhD creative writing program at the University of East Anglia.

Career
Osborne-Crowley works as a journalist, legal affairs correspondent, and writer. 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." 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". This book won the Somerset Maugham Prize for literature in 2022. Her third book, The Lasting Harm, will be published by HarperCollins in 2024.

Publications

 * I Choose Elena: On Trauma, Memory and Survival. Mood Indigo Book 2. London: Indigo, 2020. ISBN 9781999683399.
 * My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation. London: Indigo, 2021. ISBN 9781911648130.
 * The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell. London: Fourth Estate, 2024. ISBN 9780008591182.