Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a British–Australian writer, living in London. She has written two books about how trauma affects the body.

Early life and education

Osborne-Crowley was born in London and raised in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia. She was a junior gymnastics champion.[1] She graduated with a degree in international studies from the University of Sydney in 2013 and with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of New South Wales in 2018.[2]

Career

I Choose Elena (2020) is a short memoir "in which she recounts her experience of suffering a violent rape as a teenager, leading to years of chronic illness, anxiety and an eating disorder."[3] In My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) "as well as telling her own story, she draws from more than 100 interviews to explore how women and non-binary people are defined by and fighting for their bodies. [. . .] a hybrid of academic prose, memoir and reportage".[3]

Osborne-Crowley works as a journalist, legal affairs correspondent, and writer.[2]

Publications
  • I Choose Elena: On Trauma, Memory and Survival. Mood Indigo Book 2. London: Indigo, 2020. ISBN 9781999683399.[4]
  • My Body Keeps Your Secrets: Dispatches on Shame and Reclamation. London: Indigo, 2021. ISBN 9781911648130.[5][6]

See also

References
  1. "'My body started going rogue': How sexual assault derailed the life of a champion gymnast". ABC Radio. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  2. "About". luciaosbornecrowley.com. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  3. "My Body Keeps Your Secrets by Lucia Osborne-Crowley review – on women's health and trauma". The Guardian. 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  4. "I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley book review". The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  5. "Author's follow-up tackles trauma". The West Australian. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  6. Mitchell, Natasha (26 November 2021). "In a frank memoir, a writer tackles how trauma shows up in the body". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 March 2022.


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