Lucy Gray Baird is the singer from District 12 in Suzanne Collins’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Lucy Gray represents District 12 in the 10th Hunger Games, decades before Katniss Everdeen enters the arena. Her musical performances and theatrical personality help distinguish her from earlier tributes and influence how audiences respond to the Games.
The novel, published in 2020, follows the young Coriolanus Snow as he mentors Lucy Gray. She is sometimes confused with Katniss because both characters come from District 12 and use song as part of their public identity. They are separate characters from different generations, and Lucy Gray’s story belongs to the history that precedes the original trilogy.