Dilys Rose was born and brought up in Glasgow. She travelled widely and worked in various capacities at home and abroad before beginning to write in 1980. She writes mostly fiction and poetry and has published eleven books, most recently Twinset (2008). Her publications include the poetry collections Madame Doubtfire’s Dilemma (1989), When I Wear my Leopard Hat (1997) and Lure (2003). Short stories and poems have been widely published in newspapers, anthologies and magazines, broadcast on radio, and adapted for stage and screen. She has received several awards for her writing, including the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize, a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award and two Scottish Arts Council book awards. Her novel Pest Maiden was nominated for the Impac Prize. She enjoys collaborations, examples including a libretto for a chamber opera, The Child of Europe, with composer Rory Boyle. She lives in Edinburgh and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.