Rose McDonagh was born in Edinburgh. Her stories have won the Bath Flash Fiction Award and been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the London Magazine Short Story Competition, the Dinesh Allirajah Prize and the Bristol Prize. She lives in Scotland with her husband. She is trained as a counsellor and has several years’ experience working in trauma support and community health. Her first short story collection, The Dog Husband, will be published by Reflex Press in Spring 2022.
She is currently working on her debut novel, which has been longlisted for the Caledonia First Novel Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.
