Lucy Ellmann’s most recent novel, Ducks, Newburyport, was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize and the 2020 James Tait Black Prize. It was also longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Telegraph, New Statesman and Society, Spectator, Herald, Scottish Review of Books, Time Out (London), Art Monthly, Thirsty Books, Bookforum, Aeon, Evergreen and Baffler. American by birth, she now lives in Scotland.