Auteur: Rosie Garland

Novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. Her work has appeared in Under the Radar, The North, Spelk, Rialto, Butcher’s Dog, Ellipsis, New Welsh Reader, Mslexia. Debut novel, « The Palace of Curiosities », was nominated for both the Desmond Elliott and Polari First Book Prize and « Vixen » was a Green Carnation Prize nominee. Latest novel « The Night Brother » is described by The Times as « a delight: playful and exuberant… with shades of Angela Carter ». She is inaugural writer in residence at The John Rylands Library in Manchester, and in 2019 she was selected by Val Mc Dermid as one of the 10 most compelling LGBTQI+ writers working in the UK.