Dilys Rose is a Glasgow-born novelist, short story writer, poet and librettist. She has received a number of literary awards including the McCash poetry prize, 2006; a Canongate Prize, 1999; two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, 1993 and 1998; The Society of Authors’ Travel Award, 1998; and the first Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize, back in 1991. She is a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
Along side her four collections of poetry, including one for young children, and two pamphlets, the latest titled Stone the Crows (Mariscat, 2020), Rose has published three novels, and six collections of short stories— most recently Sea Fret (Scotland Street Press, 2022).
Tutu Girls #3, etching.As well as writing, Rose is a talented visual artist, with a keen eye for movement in the human figure, working in drawing, etching and collage.
She lives in Edinburgh, where she studied at the University and later taught Creative Writing there from 2002 until 2017.