Rosa Rogers is a Doctor of Philosophy in The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research. Her debut literary novel 'Composition' was completed as part of her PhD at the University of Kent. Her short stories, poetry and visual art have been published and/or exhibited in The Mersey Review, The Menteur, Stirred Press, Dissonance Magazine, Northern Quarter, East Street Arts, The Media Centre and Vortex Gallery. Rosa has performed her work across France and the UK. She is the creator of community projects: Poetry etc. and Tales of a Town and is the former Co-Director of Vortex Gallery. She currently works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Cork, Ireland.