Poet & Author

Rose Hunter is a writer, poet and sex industry survivor. Her latest book, Body Shell Girl (Spinifex Press, Australia, 2022), is a memoir in verse that tells the story of the first two years of a decade she spent in sex trade in Canada.

She is also the author of five previous books of poetry, including glass (Five Islands Press, Australia, 2017), and Anchorage (Haverthorn Press, UK, 2020). She has been widely published in literary journals in Australia, the USA, and Canada, including the Australian Poetry Journal, Overland, and Island; The Bennington Review, the Los Angeles Review, and World Literature Today, and Geist, Event, and the Malahat Review. Rose is a recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts/Creative Australia grant.

Recently her article in support of the Nordic Model approach to the sex industry/prostitution was published at the ABC Australia, and she has also been a guest on the ABC’s Radio National discussing this topic.

Rose was born in Australia and lived in Canada for ten years, then Mexico for ten more, she now lives in Brisbane/Meanjin. Rose is a freelance editor and copy editor and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Griffith University.