L.E. Yates grew up in Manchester and has a degree from Cambridge University in English Literature. She is currently taking an MA in Creative Writing at UEA, and finishing her first novel, based on the life of an eighteenth century Scottish poet and forger, James Macpherson.

L.E. Yates' story 'Lucky and Unlucky' appears in Parenthesis.

Listen to Lucy read 'Lucky and Unlucky'.