Lucy Sussex is a fantasy and science fiction author. Her first story to gain notice might be 1985's The Lipton Village Society, which involved the creation of an alternate world. In 1989 she won the Ditmar Award for My Lady Tongue about a lesbian feminist community, and her short story "Mist and Murder" won a 2008 Sir Julius Vogel Award. Her first novel came out in 1995. She is often associated with feminist science fiction.