Heather Rose

Heather Rose is the author of three novels – White Heart (1999), The Butterfly Man (2005) and the The River Wife (2009). The Butterfly Man won the 2006 Davitt Award and was shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award. It was chosen for Books Alive in 2007. In 2007 Heather received the Eleanor Dark Fellowship and an Arts Tasmania Wilderness Residency to write The River Wife.

Heather has been published in several collections including Some Girls Do edited by Jacinta Tynan (2007), Mosaic (2008) edited by Rosalind Bradley and Dirty Words: A Literary Dictionary of Sex (2008 – USA) terms edited by Ellen Sussman.

Heather’s favourite novels include Faulkner’s Light in August, Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and anything by David Mitchell. Over the years she has been influenced by William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, John Steinbeck, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf and Ian McEwan. Heather has been writing professionally since she was 16 when she wrote sailing articles for the Hobart Mercury. She spent more than 20 years in advertising where she has been a copywriter and strategist on many large Australian brands. She has won more than 20 international creative awards.

Heather lives in Hobart. She is a mother of three children and is married to songwriter and Creative Director Rowan Smith. Her idea of a perfect day is being somewhere in the Tasmanian wilderness.