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Author Bio
• Birth—1985
• Rasied—Yorkshire, England, UK
• Education—Oxford University; University of East Anglia
• Awards—Curtis Brown Prize
• Currently—lives in Northern England
Lauren Owen grew up in the grounds of a boarding school in Yorkshire. Her first attempts at writing as a teenager were Harry Potter fan fiction. She is a graduate of St Hilda's, Oxford, holds an MA in Victorian Literature, and is completing a PhD on Gothic writing and fan culture. She is the recipient of the University of East Anglia creative-writing programme's prestigious Curtis Brown Prize. The Quick is her first novel. (From the UK publisher.)