Dilys Rose is a Scottish fiction writer and poet. Born in 1954 in Glasgow, Rose studied at Edinburgh University,[1] where she taught creative writing from 2002 until 2017.[2] She was Director of the MSc in Creative Writing by Online Learning from 2012 to 2017.[3] She is currently a Royal Literary Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Her third novel Unspeakable was published by Freight Books in 2017.