Rose Skelton is an award-winning writer, reporter, and editor from Scotland. She is currently working on her first book, Easement, a collection of essays about radical gardening and the solace of nature in the face of gun culture in Texas. Essays from this collection have received a 2022 Pushcart Special Mention and been a finalist for the New Ohio Review 2024 Creative Nonfiction Prize. A second book in progress, Homescar––a collection of short fictional stories set on an island in the Inner Hebrides––won the Larry Levis Fellowship for Fiction in 2017 and an Elizabeth George Foundation grant. Her fiction has been published in Four Way Review and Waxwing and her nonfiction has appeared in Ecotone. She is the co-founder of Field Studio. Previously a reporter in west Africa, and a member of an ocean search and rescue crew on the Isle of Mull, she now lives and gardens in Texas.