Lucy Bignall was born in Zambia and grew up in Africa and the Middle East. She studied at the Royal College of Music in London and worked as a freelance violinist in England and then for fifteen years in Brisbane. Now back in England, she lives in a hairy cottage in a tiny village in Buckinghamshire, with her husband, three children, two cats and a dog and spends as much time as she can, writing. In the last year, she has completed two novels and written numerous short stories. She has had short stories published by the Australian Literature Review, Stringybark Publishing, Writer's Forum and Peny Shorts and has been shortlisted for the Fish Memoir prize.