Rosie Parker

Rosie Parker is the pen name of Rosemary Dun who has also published a romcom with Sphere entitled The Trouble With Love. She is delighted that her debut novel Only Hummingbirds Fly Backwards as Rosie Parker is published by The Book Guild.

Rosie/ Rosemary is very active on the literary scene in Bristol and used to host a monthly event called Big Mouth Cabaret. She's a novelist, short story writer, poet, performance poet, and sometime standup comedian. She's won prizes for short stories and poetry, has been published in anthologies plus magazines, and her novel The Trouble With Love was the runner up at the Romance Festival's new author prize.

She is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, teaching creative writing to undergraduates as well as on their M.A. Creative Writing course. Rosemary also teaches novel writing at Bristol Folk House, as well as running workshops at many literary festivals and conferences. She's also a freelance tutor and mentor.

She lives on the Somerset coast and can see Wales from her back garden! She finally has her dream writing shed - painted blue - which is used exclusively for novel writing. She's rep'd by Kate Hordern of KLHA.