Rose McDonagh's writing has 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 was longlisted for the Caledonia First Novel Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her debut short story collection, THE DOG HUSBAND was published by Reflex Press in 2022.

She is trained as a counsellor and has several years of experience working in trauma support and community health. She was born in Edinburgh and lives in Scotland with her husband.