Lucia Osborne-Crowley is a journalist, essayist, writer, and legal researcher. Her news reporting has appeared in ABC News, Guardian, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Women's Agenda. Her long-form writing has appeared in The Lifted Brow and Meanjin.
'If you buy one book today let it be this one...It moved me to
tears and to anger.' - Daisy Johnson,?author of?Everything
Under
'This book is burrowed deep under my skin.' - Jessica Andrews,
author of?Saltwater
'Startlingly intelligent, disturbing, profound and moving,?I Choose
Elena?shows us that the #MeToo movement has grown roots, and that
for survivors of rape and sexual assault, the revolution is just
beginning. Osborne-Crowley gives us darkness wrought in light and
the hope she offers is as palpable as it is hard-won.' - April
Ayers Lawson, author,?Virgin and Other Stories
'Thank-you Lucia Osborne-Crowley for writing?I Choose Elena, for
your bold and precise testimony on the devastation of sexual
violence, on the body's extraordinary and destructive compulsion to
contain its own trauma. Every one of the insights you share is
extremely hard-won, and I am so grateful to you for putting them
into this incredible book.' - Rosie Price, author,?What Red Was
'This book burrowed deep under my skin. A searing, potent testament
to the vital necessity of articulation in the struggle for women to
own their bodies and find a language to talk about violence and
trauma.' - Jessica Andrews, author,?Saltwater
'A fierce, eloquent meditation on trauma, #MeToo, the body, pain
and memory.' - Sinead Gleeson, author,?Constellations
'Beautiful and sad and moving and too real in the finest way.' -
Irish Times
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