Lucy Ribchester is an Edinburgh-based novelist and short story writer. Her work has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award and Manchester Fiction Prize, and longlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown. She writes historical novels under her own name and contemporary thrillers as Elle Connel. 

Lucy is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and mentor for the Scottish Book Trust. She also writes regular features and reviews for Scotland’s The List magazine.