Rosie Garland
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{{short description|British novelist, poet, singer (born 1960)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rosie Garland
| honorific_suffix =FRSL
| image = Rosie Garland.jpg
| caption = Garland reading her poetry at an online event in 2021
| other_names = Rosie Lugosi
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|5|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, England
| alma_mater = University of Leeds
| occupation = Novelist, poet, singer
| parents = William Garland (father) Mary Garland (née Metcalfe, mother)
| website = {{url|www.rosiegarland.com}}
}}
Rosie Garland FRSL (born 1960) is a British novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1047812068|title=Ripped, torn and cut : pop, politics and punk fanzines from 1976|others=Subcultures Network|year=2018 |isbn=978-1-5261-2060-1|location=Manchester|oclc=1047812068}}{{Cite web|title=Putting Leeds's goth scene into perspective - Leeds Beckett University Blogs|url=https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/expert-opinion/2016/11/putting-leeds-goth-scene-into-perspective/|access-date=2020-11-30|website=www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk|language=en-GB}} In 2023, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/12/royal-society-of-literature-aims-to-broaden-representation-as-it-announces-62-new-fellows|title=Royal Society of Literature aims to broaden representation as it announces 62 new fellows|first=Ella|last=Creamer|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 July 2023}}
Life
Born in London on 8 May 1960, she was adopted as a baby by her mother Mary Garland (née Metcalfe) and father William Garland, spending her childhood living in Hampshire, Somerset, Devon and Hertfordshire.{{Cite web|title=Why I have never felt the need to find my birth mother|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11018935/Why-I-have-never-felt-the-need-to-find-my-birth-mother.html|access-date=2020-12-02|website=The Telegraph|date=10 August 2014 |language=en-GB}} In 1978, aged 18, she moved to Yorkshire to study at the University of Leeds, graduating with a BA Hons in English Special Studies and an MA (with distinction) in Medieval English Studies.{{Cite web|date=2016-06-06|title=Telling the truth and telling it slant: writing Vixen|url=https://blogs.surrey.ac.uk/medievalwomen/2016/06/06/telling-the-truth-and-telling-it-slant-writing-vixen/|access-date=2020-12-02}} In 1981 she joined The March Violets. During 1984 to 1986 she worked as an English teacher in Sudan.{{Cite journal|last=Pettersson|first=Lin|date=2016|title="Definitely an Author to Watch": Rosie Garland on the (Neo) Victorian Freak|url=http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/|journal=Neo-Victorian Studies|volume=8|issue=2 |pages=200–223}} From 2001 she was the victim of a stalker, with the 2007 court case featured as a lead article in the Manchester Evening News.{{Cite web|last=Osuh|first=Chris|date=2005-10-27|title=Lesbian stalker loses vampire love battle|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/lesbian-stalker-loses-vampire-love-1089154|access-date=2020-12-02|website=Manchester Evening News|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Manchester Evening News|date=2007-02-15|title=Lesbian stalker and the vampire poet|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/lesbian-stalker-and-the-vampire-poet-1118512|access-date=2020-12-02|website=Manchester Evening News|language=en}} In 2009 she was diagnosed with throat cancer and successfully treated at The Christie Hospital in Manchester.
Career
She has published seven solo collections of poetry. As a performance poet, she has often given readings as her alter-ego Rosie Lugosi, Lesbian Vampire Queen and has performed on the cabaret circuit in British troupe Lesburlesque. In 2001 she won the Performance Artist category in the Sexual Freedom Awards.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39108745|title=Acts of passion : sexuality, gender, and performance|date=1998|publisher=Haworth Park Press|author=Rapi, Nina|author2= Chowdhry, Maya|isbn=0-7890-0370-8|location=New York|oclc=39108745}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/624405642|title=Occupational therapies without borders : towards an ecology of occupation-based practices|date=2011|publisher=Churchill Livingston/Elsevier|author=Kronenberg, Frank|author2= Pollard, Nick|author3= Sakellariou, Dikaios|isbn=978-0-7020-3103-8|edition=1st|location=Edinburgh|oclc=624405642}}{{Cite journal|last=Garland|first=Rosie|date=1998-07-02|title=Coming Out at Night—Performing as the Lesbian Vampire Rosie Lugosi|url=https://doi.org/10.1300/J155v02n02_15|journal=Journal of Lesbian Studies|volume=2|issue=2–3|pages=201–207|doi=10.1300/J155v02n02_15|issn=1089-4160|pmid=24785525}}{{Cite web|title=feral feminisms » "PERFORMING QUEER FEMININITY AND PERFORMING IT ALL WRONG:" THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE PERSONA ROSIE LUGOSI THE VAMPIRE QUEEN|url=https://feralfeminisms.com/performing-queer-femininity/|access-date=2020-11-30}}{{Cite web|date=2011-07-18|title=Rosie Lugosi - Vampire Queen|url=http://www.terrorizer.com/dominion/dominionfeatures/rosie-lugosi-vampire-queen/|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Terrorizer|language=en-GB}}
Her debut novel The Palace of Curiosities won the inaugural Mslexia Novel Competition in 2012 and was published by HarperCollins. This work is set in a Victorian freak show, where the central character Eve has hypertrichosis, a condition where the entire body is covered in hair.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/993642613|title=Neo-Victorian humour : comic subversions and unlaughter in contemporary historical re-visions|date=2017|publisher=Brill|others=Kohlke, Marie-Luise., Gutleben, Christian.|isbn=978-90-04-33661-2|location=Leiden|oclc=993642613}}{{Citation|last=Tomaiuolo|first=Saverio|title=Julia Pastrana's Traces, or the Afterlives of the Victorian Ape Woman|date=2018|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96950-3_3|work=Deviance in Neo-Victorian Culture: Canon, Transgression, Innovation|pages=65–103|editor-last=Tomaiuolo|editor-first=Saverio|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-96950-3_3|isbn=978-3-319-96950-3|access-date=2020-11-30}} This was followed by a second novel, Vixen and a third novel The Night Brother, which is set in her adopted city of Manchester.{{Cite web|date=2015-03-13|title=Author, singer and vampire Rosie Garland talks to Northern Soul|url=https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/author-singer-and-vampire-rosie-garland-talks-to-northern-soul/|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Northern Soul|language=en-GB}}{{Cite web|date=2019-10-30|title=Manchester Gothic Festival: Local authors discuss the Gothic as an identity|url=https://aah-magazine.co.uk/2019/manchester-gothic-festival-the-gothic-an-identity/|access-date=2020-11-30|website=aAh! Magazine|language=en-GB}}
In 2018 she became inaugural Writer-in-Residence at The John Rylands Library, Manchester.{{Cite web|title=Rosie Garland is the new writer-in-residence at Manchester's John Rylands Library|url=https://www.visitmanchester.com/ideas-and-inspiration/haunt-manchester/places-product-list/writer-in-residence|access-date=2020-11-22|website=Visit Manchester|language=en-GB}} In 2019 she was selected by Val McDermid, who had been asked by the National Centre for Writing and the British Council to choose ten writers to showcase the quality and breadth of LGBTQI+ writers working in the UK.{{Cite web|date=2019-08-10|title=The word is out: Val McDermid selects Britain's 10 most outstanding LGBTQ writers|first=Val|last=McDermid|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/10/the-word-is-out-val-mcdermid-selects-britains-10-most-outstanding-lgbtq-writers|access-date=2020-11-24|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Val McDermid's ten exciting LGBTQI+ writers in the UK|url=https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/val-mcdermids-lgbtqi-writers/|access-date=2020-11-24|website=National Centre for Writing}}
Awards
- 2012: Winner, Mslexia Novel Competition
- 2013: Winner, Cooperative Bank "Loved By You" LGBT Book of the Year 2013
Works
= Poetry =
- Hell and Eden (Dagger Press, 1997)
- Creatures of the Night (purpleprosepress, 2003)
- Coming Out at Night (purpleprosepress, 2005)
- Things I Did While I Was Dead, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0955509254}}
- Everything Must Go, 2012, {{ISBN|978-1907320224}}
- As In Judy, 2016, {{ISBN|978-0995501201}}
- What Girls Do In The Dark, 2020, {{ISBN|978-1-913437-05-3}}
= Novels =
- The Palace of Curiosities , 2013, {{ISBN|978-0007492787}}
- Vixen, 2015, {{ISBN|978-0007492800}}
- The Night Brother, 2017, {{ISBN|978-0008166106}}
- The Fates 2024
Reviews
- Judith Flanders (6 April 2013). [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/06/palace-of-curiosities-review "The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland – review"]. The Guardian.
- Claire Booker (5 January 2017). [https://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=63176 "As in Judy: Rosie Garland, Flapjack"]. Write Out Loud.
- Dr Claire Nally (28 July 2018). [https://theblogginggoth.com/2018/07/28/the-night-brother-by-rosie-garland-reviewed-by-dr-claire-nally/ "'The Night Brother' by Rosie Garland – guest review"]. The Blogging Goth.
- Juliano Zaffino (15 October 2020). [https://lunate.co.uk/reviews/what-girls-do-in-the-dark-by-rosie-garland "What Girls Do in the Dark by Rosie Garland"]. Lunate Fiction.
References
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External links
- [http://www.rosiegarland.com/ Official website]
- [https://harpercollins.co.uk/blogs/authors/rosie-garland "Rosie Garland"], HarperCollins Publishers
- [https://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/authors/rosie-garland/ "rosie Garland"], Holland Park Press
- Rosie Garland, [http://booksbywomen.org/rosie-garland/ Rosie Garland: From Mslexia Novel Competition to Harper Collins"], women writers, women's Books, 31 January 2014.
- [https://wordmothers.com/2015/02/09/interview-with-author-rosie-garland/ "Meet Rosie Garland"]. Interview by Nicole Melanson, WordMothers, 9 February 2015.
- Ana Hine, [https://www.theskinny.co.uk/sexuality/deviance/rosie-garland-the-palace-of-curiosities "Rosie Garland: The Palace of Curiosities"], The Skinny, 1 October 2013.
- Simon Bestwisk, [http://simon-bestwick.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-lowdown-with-rosie-garland.html "The Lowdown with... Rosie Garland"], 4 December 2016.
- [https://www.cultureword.org.uk/writer-of-the-month-rosie-garland/ "Writer of the Month – Rosie Garland"], Commonword.
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Category:21st-century English women writers
Category:21st-century British poets
Category:British lesbian writers
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
Category:Alumni of the University of Leeds
Category:Writers from Hampshire