Lucy Kissick

Lucy Kissick is a British novelist and scientist born in Southport. She took a doctorate in planetary geochemistry at the University of Oxford, where her research involved recreating ancient Martian lakes in the laboratory to understand the planet's climate and atmosphere, and she also worked on a mission concept to the asteroid belt developed with the European Space Agency. She wrote her debut novel, Plutoshine, during her doctorate; it won the inaugural Bloomsbury Writers and Artists Working-Class Writers' Prize ahead of publication by Gollancz in 2022 and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2023. She now works as a scientist in the nuclear industry and lives in Cumbria, in the English Lake District.

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