Lucy Rose (writer)

Rose was born in Leeds to a working-class Yorkshire family^[1] and grew up in rural Cumbria.^[2][3] Rose attended the William Howard School. She left home at age 15^[4] and went on to graduate from Northumbria University with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production.^[5][6]

Initially credited as Lucy Rose Wilson-Green, she wrote and directed the short film The Sycamore Gap during her final year of university as her graduating project.^[7][8] For The Sycamore Gap, she won the Student Award for Writing at the 2019 Royal Television Society's North East and Border Awards^[9] and was shortlisted for Film Hub North's inaugural Filmmaker Award.^[10]

This was followed by Rose's short films Peak,^[4] She Lives Alone,^[11] and Taste.^[12] She also founded the production company Cool Girl Pictures.^[4]

In 2024, Rose's debut feature film A Man at the Window was selected for the UK Next Wave Genre Lab, with Patrik Andersson and Jenna Bass as mentors.^[13][14]

Rose's work has been published in Mslexia and Dread Central. She founded the Working Class Writing Circle with Louis Glazzard.^[15]

In a six-way auction in June 2023, Weidenfeld & Nicolson won the rights to publish Rose's debut novel The Lamb in 2025.^[16] She began writing it as a series of flash fictions before reworking them into all being about one family.^[17] Centering around cannibalism,^{[18][19][20][21]} the novel has been identified as part of a trend of "femgore" literature and "feminist body horror."^[22][23] The Lamb debuted at #2 on The Sunday Times Best Seller list^[24] and was shortlisted for the 2025 Books Are My Bag Readers' Award for Fiction.^[25]

Rose lives in South Shields.^[24] She identifies as asexual.^[26]

• The Lamb. W&N. 2025. ISBN 9781399619714.^{[18][19][20][23][21]}

• "Fleeting Tale of Demeter" in The Selkie (2020)
• "Damn Spot" in Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, Issue 2: Twisted Tales (2020)
• "The Lady Crow" in The One That Got Away: Women of Horror, Volume 3 (2021), edited by Jill Girardi
• "Carcinization" in Of the Flesh (2024)