Lucy Rose is an English writer and filmmaker. She began her career making short films. Her debut novelThe Lamb (2025) became aSunday Times bestseller.

Rose was born inLeeds to an old working class Yorkshire family^[1] and grew up in rural Cumbria.^[2][3] Rose attended theWilliam Howard School. She left home at age 15^[4] and went on to graduate fromNorthumbria University with aBachelor of Arts (BA) in Film and Television Production.^[5][6]

Initially credited as Lucy Rose Wilson-Green, she wrote and directed the short filmThe Sycamore Gap during her final year of university as her graduating project.^[7][8] ForThe Sycamore Gap, she won the Student Award – Writing at the 2019Royal 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 filmsPeak,^[4]She Lives Alone,^[11] andTaste.^[12] She also founded the production companyCool Girl Pictures.^[4]

In 2024, Rose's debut feature filmA Man at the Window was selected for the UK Next Wave Genre Lab, withPatrik Andersson andJenna Bass as mentors.^[13][14]

Rose was a columnist forMslexia. 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 novelThe 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 onThe Sunday Times Best Seller list^[24] and was shortlisted for the 2025Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards.^[25]

As of 2025, Rose lives inSouth Shields.^[24] In 2022, she wrote an article on asexuality forDread Central.^[26]

• The Lamb (2025), W&NISBN 9780063374607^{[27][28][20][23][29]}

• "Fleeting Tale of Demeter" inThe Selkie (2020)
• "Damn Spot" inAnalogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, Issue 2: Twisted Tales (2020)
• "The Lady Crow" inThe One That Got Away: Women of Horror, Volume 3 (2021), edited by Jill Girardi
• inOf the Flesh (2024)

• The Sycamore Gap (2018)
• Peak (2019)
• She Lives Alone (2020)
• Taste (2023)

• Lucy Rose atIMDb

• Living people
• 1996 births
• Alumni of Northumbria University
• Asexual women
• British asexual people
• Asexual writers
• English horror writers
• English women film directors
• English women novelists
• Mass media people from Leeds
• Writers from Cumbria
• Writers from Leeds

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