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Poets' A-Z » Dilys Rose
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.
Her publications include the short story collections Our Lady of the Pickpockets (1989), Red Tides (1993), and War Dolls (1998), the novel Pest Maiden (1999) and the poetry collections, Madame Doubtfire’s Dilemma (1989), When I Wear my Leopard Hat (1997) and Lure (2003). Individual stories and poems have been widely published in newspapers, anthologies and magazines, broadcast on radio, and adapted for stage and screen. Her play Learning the Paso Doble was premiered at the Traverse Theatre in 1999.
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. Red Tides was shortlisted for both the McVitie’s Scottish Writer of the Year and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year, and Pest Maiden was nominated for the Impac Prize.
She lives in Edinburgh and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh.
 
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