Rose Skelton is currently working on 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 2023 Creative Nonfiction Prize. Her essay “Fruiting Bodies,” about looking for mushrooms and for a donor for their son, was a finalist in the New Ohio Review Creative Nonfiction Prize and will be published in 2024. Her essay “Little Starts,” about plant theft and making a home in the United States, was published by Ecotone magazine in 2021.
She is also working on Homescar, a collection of short stories set on an island in Scotland. “Fatty Acids," the first story from that collection, was published in Waxwing Magazine in 2018. A second story, “Heartwood,” was published by Four Way Review in 2018.
Her reporting has been published in the Guardian, the New York Times, the BBC, the Independent and elsewhere.