Meet Lucy
Hi, I’m Lucy. Writer, book lover, science geek, neurodivergent, obsessed with bees.
I’m a science writer by day. I have the privilege of interviewing scientists every week about their world-changing research, then I get to write about it. I work with universities, publishers and other institutions to tell their stories. The best thing about this is I spend most of my time in a state of awe.
I’m a fiction writer by night. My stories are dark, odd, often surprising, never with a happy ending. You can read some of my stories on this site, and I’ll share a link whenever one escapes into the world. I’m working on two novels – both magical realism.
Where did all this come from?
I’m a total geek at heart. While everyone else at school was playing during lunch breaks, I was on my own, twiddling knobs on the microfiche machine in the library (remember those?) and putting together a portfolio about the Ebola virus. Or learning origami. Or joining extra language classes, because I really needed to know Latin.
I had planned to become a journalist, but on a whim I changed direction in my college interview and ended up taking A-levels in physics, chemistry, biology and psychology. I have a BSc (Hons) in genetics and microbiology from the University of Leeds and an MSc in the history of science, technology and medicine from Imperial College London, UCL and Wellcome.
I very quickly discovered I’m a terrible lab scientist, so I decided to let my love of writing take over again. The rest, they say, is history. (Well, science.)
Other things: I’m a mama of two little ones, stepmama of two bigger ones, wife of a rocker and caretaker of an entitled cat, a hardcore goldfish and an enormous water snail. I was born in the UK and I’ve lived in the Netherlands since 2010. I speak English and Dutch, rusty French and Spanish and I’m learning Mandarin.
Did I miss something? Ask me on Instagram, TikTok or Clubhouse (@bookdoctorlucy).
