Rosie Fiore-Burt

Rosie Fiore-Burt has published eight novels to critical acclaim, including This Year’s Black (Struik), Babies in Waiting (Quercus), After Isabella and What She Left (Allen & Unwin). She also writes under the pseudonym Cass Hunter, and her first novel as Cass, The After Wife, was published by Trapeze. It was translated into nine languages and optioned as a film in China. 

She was born and grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa and studied drama at the University of the Witwatersrand. Rosie has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. She is an editor, mentor and tutor on Jericho Writers Ultimate Novel Writing course, and teaches business writing, journalism and copywriting. She has worked as a writer for theatre, television, magazines, advertising, comedy and the corporate market. 

She is the chair of Theatre in the Square, a north London drama group, where she directs and acts, and leads in the development of devised productions. Her play, Through a Glass Darkly, ran at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in 2016, and her stage adaptation of Dracula was performed at the Bridewell Theatre in 2019. 

Her twin obsessions with Stoker’s masterwork and London have led her to move into historical fiction, developing two projects: a feminist retelling of Dracula, and a historical crime novel set in the City of London. She lives in north London and has one husband, two sons and a cat. She enjoys yoga, wild-water swimming and running.