Lucia Osborne Crowley

Lucia Osborne-Crowley is an award-winning writer and journalist.  She currently works as a UK Court reporter for Law360, a US newswire covering courts and crime across the world. She is also a trained lawyer. You can find her Wikipedia page here. Her news reporting and literary work have appeared in Granta, GQ, The Sunday Times, HuffPost UK, the Guardian, ABC News, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow and others.

Lucia’s latest book is the culmination of five years of court reporting. The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell is an in-depth look at one of the most complex and high-profile US criminal cases in living memory. Lucia was one of only four court reporters allowed into the courtroom for every day of the Maxwell trial.

Lucia experienced sexual abuse when training as a teenage gymnast in her native Australia

The Lasting Harm was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award for Longform Journalism and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award.

Her first book, I Choose Elena, was published in 2019 and has since been published in four territories and three languages.

My Body Keeps Your Secrets, Lucia’s second book, was published in September 2021, examines the secrets a body keeps, from gender identity, puberty and menstruation to sexual pleasure; to pregnancy or its absence; and to darker secrets of abuse, invasion or violation.  My Body Keeps Your Secrets was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize for Literature in 2022.