Michelle Lovric is a novelist, writer and anthologist.

Her third novel, The Remedy, was long-listed for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Remedy is a literary murder-mystery set against the background of the quack medicine industry in the eighteenth century.

Her first novel, Carnevale, is the story of the painter Cecilia Cornaro, described by The Times as the possessor of ‘the most covetable life’ in fiction in 2001.

In Lovric’s second novel, The Floating Book, a chorus of characters relates the perilous beginning of the print industry in Venice. The book explores the translation of raw emotion into saleable merchandise from the points of view of poets, editors, publishers – and their lovers. The Floating Book, a London Arts award winner, was also selected as a WH Smith ‘Read of the Week’.

Her first novel for young adult readers, The Undrowned Child, is published by Orion. The sequel, The Mourning Emporium, is published in October 2010.

Her fourth adult novel, The Book of Human Skin, was published by Bloomsbury in April 2010 and by Penguin Canada in June 2010.

Lovric reviews for publications including The Times and writes travel articles about Venice. She has featured in several BBC radio documentaries about Venice.

She blogs regularly on the Scattered Authors’ Society website An Awfully Big Blog Adventure and the English Writers in Italy website.

She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times best-seller.

She has presented events at the Ateneo Veneto, the Wellcome Institute, and at the Edinburgh International Book Fair.

Lovric divides her time between London and Venice. She holds a workshop in her home in London with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir. She's been appointed Royal Literary Fund fellow at the Courtauld Institute of Art from September 2010.

She's now working on a new children's novel set in Venice and an adult novel with a medical theme.