Rose Lu: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Rose Lu: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency

Rose Lu: 2024
Emerging Writers Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

We have welcomed Rose, a Wellington based writer, as our first writer-in-residence for 2024. Rose gained her Masters of Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2018 and was awarded the Modern Letters Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Her first essay collection  All Who Live on Islands was published to critical acclaim in 2019. She has also been published in The Guardian, Metro and Pantograph Punch. She was the Writer in Residence at Randall Cottage in 2022. Her undergraduate degree was in Mechatronics Engineering and she has worked as a software developer since 2012.

*Photo credit Chris Tse