Lucy Ellmann is an award-winning novelist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Herald Scottish Review, The Baffler and many other publications. Ducks, Newburyport was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and won the 2019 Goldsmith’s Prize, and is nominated for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She lives in Scotland.