With the triumph of England's Lionesses at Euro 2022, the women's game has been in the spotlight like never before, enjoying unprecedented media attention.
Carrie Dunn is a writer. Her recent books include The Pride of the Lionesses (Pitch, 2019), nominated as Football Book of the Year in 2020, and a sequel to The Roar of the Lionesses: Women's Football in England (Pitch, 2016), one of the Guardian's best sport books of 2016. Her most recent book Unsuitable for Females (Arena, 2022) tells the stories of the people who have kept women's football blazing a trail over the last century. She has covered the last three Women's World Cups for the Times and Eurosport, and is a regular voice on BBC radio as well as The Athletic's Women's Football Podcast. She has a PhD in sport sociology, and her particular research specialism is in women's experience of sport. Her own footballing career began - and ended - with the Junior Hatters' supporters' club in her hometown of Luton. She lives in the beautiful Snowdonia National Park with her actor husband and their rescue lurcher, Spring.
