LUCY CAMPBELL is a writer and doctor based in Manchester, UK. After a BA Hons in literature and creative writing in Sheffield, she trained as a medical doctor, working as an inner-city GP in Manchester. She also trained and worked as a medico-legal report writing doctor with asylum seeker charity Freedom from Torture, working with individuals to detail their experiences of torture to support their asylum applications. She has written and directed award winning narrative short films with BFI, Film4, Film London and Fox Digital/Hulu. She won the Aesthetica International Creative Writing Prize 2023/4 with the short story ‘Mr Street’, and has a story in the US journal Hypertext. She has work in collections with Aesthetica, Comma Press and The Manchester Anthology. She has four children.