Rosy Carrick was born in Lancashire in 1982. She has lived in Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, Bristol and Aberystwyth, and now resides in sunny Brighton, with her daughter Olive and the death of their cat Squeaky.

She has a BA in English and Writing (2.1) from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and an MA in Critical Theory and Creative Writing (distinction) from Sussex University. Postgraduate academic papers include:

'Perverting the Text: Fact and Fiction in Freud's 'Female Sexuality';

'Getting Lost: Death, Bliss and Creativity';

'Avant-Garde Poetry: Disordered Eating or Unpalatable Truth?';

'The Love Poem: To Eat You in Other Words';

'Satisfaction Guaranteed! - Artistic Commodification and the Possibility of Authentic Expression in Western Consumer Culture'.

Research interests: radical aesthetics, performance and algolagnia, consumer culture, expression vs. entertainment, self erasure.