Lucy Mercer is a writer based in London. She is the author book Emblem (Prototype, 2022) which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and a book of the year in Frieze, The New Statesman and The White Review. Her writing on art and literature has been widely published in Art Review, Granta, INQUE, LA Review of Books, Poetry Review, Poetry London and The White Review among others. She is co-editor, with Livia Franchini, of Too Little, Too Hard, a collection of essays by some of our most exciting writers on the relation of writing to labour and value (Peninsula Press, 2026). Her forthcoming essay on wax and mortality, Afterlife, was awarded the 2024 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize and is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions.

Lucy exhibits visual work and often explores the relation between text and image through research and curation. She is currently
co-curating a forthcoming exhibition based on Afterlife with independent curator and writer Lou Stoppard.

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