Award-winning novelist Rosie Chard grew up on the edge of the North Downs, a range of low hills south of London, UK. She worked as a landscape architect at the University of Greenwich and practiced for several years in England, Denmark and Canada. She and her family emigrated to Winnipeg in 2005 where she worked as an English Language teacher at the University of Manitoba. She is now based in Brighton, England. Her first novel, Seal Intestine Raincoat, was published in 2009; her second novel, The Insistent Garden, was published in 2013.