Lucy Elizabeth Allan is a Scottish writer, illustrator and doctoral researcher.
Her debut novella, Skin Grows Over, can be purchased here.
I’m a fan of dried flowers, extremely thin fineliner pens, folk songs that tell stories, alchemy, prestige miniseries starring Jared Harris, sympathetic monsters, and watching my neighbours’ cats in the window across the street.
I have worked as a copywriter, cinema host, art gallery gift shop assistant, office temp, online tutor and graduate teaching assistant.
Having received my Master’s in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin, I am now studying towards a creative writing DFA at the University of Glasgow, researching unnatural creation and queer embodiment.
My debut novella was published this year, and I am working on my first novel.
A young woman struggles with a devastating personal loss, while in the remote Scottish wilderness, an ancient bog body waits to be put to rest…
Praise for Skin Grows Over:
"Skin Grows Over is a haunting meditation on death, bodies, and difference… This is, quite simply, an extraordinary book, and Allan an astonishing new talent."
-Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Places
"Eerie and beautiful, this story explores the heartbreak of death and loss. Let it lead you through a deep, mystical world of incantations to the edge of the earth where haunted souls submerge, roped together in grief."
-Anna Cheung, author of Where Decay Sleeps
"Skin Grows Over has the chilly bones of pure gothic horror with a warm, tender, utterly human heart at its centre… Lyrical, literary and pacy, Skin Grows Over will capture the imagination, chill the marrow and move the emotions in equal measure and belongs among the best of contemporary horror writing."
-Rose Ruane, author of This is Yesterday
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