Rose Keating is a writer from Waterford, Ireland. She studied on the Creative Writing Prose Fiction MA at UEA, where she was a recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize for best dissertation. She is a winner of the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award, the Sean Dunne Young Writers Award, the Hot Press Write Here Write Now prize, and the Ted and Mary O’Regan Arts Bursary. She has been published in Apex Magazine, Hot Press magazine, Banshee journal and Southword journal. In 2022, she received an Agility Award from the Irish Arts Council to fund the completion of her debut short story collection. This collection, Oddbody, was published in 2025 by Canongate (UK) and S&S (US) to rave reviews, and nominated for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards.

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‘This impressive, wildly imaginative collection heralds the arrival of a compelling new voice in speculative fiction.’ – New York Times

‘Rib tickling and joyously diabolic, this book breathes a new and invigorating life into Irish literature.’ – Camilla Grudova

‘An uneasy, bold and subversive collection of astonishing tales that left me hungry for more. With Rose Keating, we are witnessing the birth of a rare and precious talent in literature.’ – Lucy Rose

‘Brutal, beautiful, bloodthirsty. [She] writes with the vivid grace of a poet and the clear-eyed insight of someone who knows a ghost or two. One of the most memorable debuts I’ve read in a long time.’ – Kirsty Logan