Lucy Hannah

Writer and trainer

Lucy Hannah's writing career spans fact and fiction. She has worked as a newspaper journalist and a BBC producer in factual programmes for both TV and radio.

In BBC Drama she directed plays for Radios 3 and 4, and more recently she led workshops for young offenders and ex-offenders as writer-in-residence at HMP Rochester. She has run writing projects in many prisons for the Arts Council.

Her dramatised biography for children, Nancy Wake - the Gestapo's Most Wanted Woman, was published in January 2006. An excerpt from her first novel, Hoovering Up the Sand (written on creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia 2001) was shortlisted for the Norwich Prize. She is working on her second novel Spitting Angels.