Biography
Dilys Rose was born and brought up in Glasgow. She has travelled widely and worked in various capacities at home and abroad before beginning to write in 1980.
She has wide experience as a creative writing tutor for all ages and stages. Before her current position of Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, she was creative writing consultant at Glasgow University. Previous to that, she held two community fellowships in Mid/East Lothian and in Castlemilk Libraries. She has visited many schools, colleges and libraries, giving readings from her work, talks and writing workshops as well as being a tutor on several residential writing courses at Arvon and similar institutions. She has been a guest of the British Council in Germany and the Czech Republic, and taken part in several International Writers' Festivals.
Awards: The Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize (1991), The Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award (1997), The Society of Authors' Travel Award (1998), The Canongate Prize (1999), 2 Scottish Arts Council book awards (for Red Tides and War Dolls, 1993 and 1998) Red Tides was also short listed for both the McVitie's Scottish Writer of the Year and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. Pest Maiden was nominated for the Impac Prize.