Lucy Burns was born in 1991 and lives in Manchester, where she received her PhD on the history of Black Mountain College. Her reviews and essays have appeared in PN Review, Hotel, and elsewhere. She currently works as an assistant editor. Larger than an Orange is her first book.
Irreducible. Once read, it will never be forgotten -- Helen Mort A searing exploration of what it can mean to live in, and with, one's own body. Lucy Burns' writing on choice and its aftermath is boldly innovative, achingly human, and powerfully vulnerable -- Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women A formally innovative, unflinching story that offers a raw, tender and urgent contribution to a vital conversation about bodies, ownership, freedom and reproductive rights -- Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater Propulsive for its formal innovations, Larger than an Orange uses sparse, exacting prose to delineate important ideas, casting a light on the systemic contradictions within how we're conditioned to think, and speak, about abortion. It lays out, with affecting vulnerability, the complex and regenerative cycles of shame and grief that accompany an impossible decision. I was both deeply saddened, and really impressed by it -- Susannah Dickey, author of Tennis Lessons