C.D. Rose is from Manchester but currently lives in the south of Italy, where he enjoys not feeling at home. He spends far too much time writing improbable short stories about fish, shoes, ships, jewels, paintings, photographs, violins, cats, kites, big cities, small towns, bets, promises, deals, dreams, thefts, displacement, exile, love, loss and death.

C.D. Rose's story 'Violins and Pianos are Horses' appears in Parenthesis.