Lucy Rose

Lucy Rose is an English writer and filmmaker. She began her career making short films. Her debut novel The Lamb became a Sunday Times bestseller.

Early life and education Rose was born in Leeds to a working-class Yorkshire family and grew up in rural Cumbria. Rose attended the William Howard School. She left home at age 15

Career Film 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. For The Sycamore Gap, she won the Student Award for Writing at the 2019 Royal Television Society's North East and Border Awards and was shortlisted for Film Hub North's inaugural Filmmaker Award.

This was followed by Rose's short films Peak, She Lives Alone, and Taste. She also founded the production company Cool Girl Pictures.

Writing Rose's work has been published in Mslexia and Dread Central. She founded the Working Class Writing Circle with Louis Glazzard.

In a six-way auction in June 2023, Weidenfeld & Nicolson won the rights to publish Rose's debut novel The Lamb in 2025. She began writing it as a series of flash fictions before reworking them into all being about one family. Centering around cannibalism, the novel has been identified as part of a trend of "femgore" literature and "feminist body horror."

Personal life Rose lives in South Shields. She identifies as asexual.