is the author of six young adult and middle grade novels. Her first, I AM AN ARTICHOKE was a 1995 Publishers Weekly Flying Start. Booklist said of WILL YOU BE MY BRUSSELS SPROUT, its follow-up: "This quirky coming-of-age story will confirm Frank's place as a fresh new YA talent. Her books have been praised as "funny, brainy and sweet", "wise and terrifically well-observed."
In the years before she devoted herself to writing full-time, Lucy worked as a vitamin pill shipping clerk, editorial assistant, children's clothing designer, low-income housing program administrator, budget analyst, mutual fund portfolio manager, employment counselor, and lab administrator for a neurobiology lab that studied mouse reproductive behavior. Her husband is a film editor and cellist. They have a son in graduate school. Lucy writes in the dining room/office of their apartment in New York City as well as at the farmhouse in upstate New York that they've been fixing up, inside and out, for the past twenty-five years. When she isn't writing, she can be found playing duets with her husband, tromping through the woods, or working in the garden.
