Lucy Popescu is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in human rights, literature and theatre. She worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and was Director of its Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. The Good Tourist, her book about human rights and ethical travel, was published by Arcadia Books in late 2008. She co-edited the PEN anthology Another Sky (Profile Books, 2007) featuring the work of writers that PEN has helped over the last 40 years. She was Granada’s youngest published author in 1982 with Pony Holiday Book. Lucy reviews books, theatre and film and contributes to various publications in the UK and abroad including The Independent, Independent on Sunday, TLS, Literary Review, Guardian online, Huffington Post and Tribune magazine as well as Cine-Vue and Theatreworld websites. Lucy currently programmes and hosts literary events at the Working Men’s College in Camden and teaches creative writing. She is also a volunteer writing mentor for Write to Life, the creative writing group at Freedom from Torture and edited its most recent anthology, Body Maps, published in June 2011 and Jade Amoli Jackson's Moving a Country in 2013. Lucy is a Trustee of the JMK Award for Theatre Directors, a co-director of the Sri Lanka Campaign, and is on the judging panel for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006.