Lucy Ellmann

Who is Lucy Ellmann?

Lucy Ellmann is an Anglo-American novelist who now lives in Scotland.

Her first book, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. She is the daughter of the American biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann, and is married to the American writer Todd McEwen. Her fourth novel, Dot in the Universe, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and shortlisted for the Believer Book Award.

Ellmann lectured and led seminars in Creative Writing at the University of Kent between September 2009 and July 2010.