Lucy Rose | |
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| Born | Lucy Rose Wilson-Green 27 January 1996 Leeds, England |
| Alma mater | Northumbria University |
| Years active | 2017–present |
| Website | lucyrosecreative |
Lucy Rose is an English writer and filmmaker. She began her career making short films. Her debut novel The Lamb (2025) became a Sunday Times bestseller.
Rose was born in Leeds to an old 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 (BA) 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 – Writing at the 2019 Royal Television Society's North East and Border Awards (NETB Awards) [9] and was also shortlisted for Film Hub North's inaugural Filmmaker Award. [10]
This was followed by Rose's next 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 was a columnist for Mslexia . She founded the Working Class Writing Circle with Louis Glazzard. [15]
In a six-way auction in June 2023, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N) won the rights to publish Rose's debut novel The Lamb in 2025. [16] She had begun writing it as a "series of what I thought were unconnected flash fictions" before "[realising] that I was actually writing about the same family". [17] Featuring cannibalism, [18] [19] [20] [21] the novel was 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]
As of 2025, Rose lives in South Shields. [24] In 2022, she wrote an article on asexuality for Dread Central . [25]