Lorna Elcock is a fiction writer. Her work has been shortlisted for the Women's Prize Trust Discoveries Award and longlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. She has studied literature at Glasgow and York universities, and creative writing at Goldsmiths. Having finished her first novel- which, concerning youth hostels, fine art, birds of prey, Cumbernauld and Covent Garden, quite naturally took a very long time to write- she is now at work on her second. That, too, is set primarily in Scotland, to where she's recently returned after many years away.