Rosie Garland

Rosie Garland is an award-winning novelist, poet and short story writer & sings with post-punk band The March Violets. Poetry collection What Girls do the Dark (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize & her latest collection This Is How I Fight was Observer Poetry Book of the Month. Her four historical novels include The Palace of Curiosities (winner of the Mslexia Novel Competition) and The Night Brother, described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter.”

Rosie has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries, and a firm belief in the power of persistence. She is a writing mentor for Literature Works, Nine Arches Press, The Ruppin Agency and National Centre for Writing. Val McDermid named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT+ writers, & in 2023 she was made Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.