Profile: Winter Rosalind

About This Author

Rosalind Winter was born in India in 1948 and brought up in Warwickshire. She received BA and MA degrees in English Language and Literature from the University of London, and taught Early English for a year at University College, Cork, before being awarded her PhD in 1974 for a thesis on Beowulf. A diverse career included working for the British Council, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Aston University, and the National Trust. She also served for ten years as an officer in 67 (The Queen’s Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry Signal Squadron) (Volunteers). The final highly enjoyable fifteen years of her working life were spent managing the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Medical Committee and the South-West Regional Association of Local Medical Committees. She took early retirement in 2006, and published her first novel, Ready, Steady, Dig! in 2008, followed by a sequel, Gnome or Mr Nice Guy, in 2010. A book of short stories for children, The Mice of St Goran, was published in 2011 in aid of the St Goran Bell Fund. In 2015 she edited her Mother’s memoirs, Plucking the Moon from the Bottom of the Sea: The Life and Times of Audrey Winter. She has also edited and published two novels by her friend, the late Lesley J Nickell, Butterfly: Painted Lady (2013), and Butterfly: Mourning Cloak (2016), and is currently working on a third Rooks Ridge novel, provisionally entitled The Curse of the Corvos. Rosalind Winter now lives in Stratford-upon-Avon, where she is a member of the Parish Team of All Saints Church, Luddington, and Deputy Chair of Stratford in Bloom.