Background
Peter John Rose was born in Wangaratta on 8 June 1955, grew up there, and was educated at Haileybury, Melbourne and Monash University.
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Foreign many years he was an academic publisher. Since 2001 he has been Editor of Australian Book Review, the country"s premier literary magazine. Throughout the 1990s Rose was a publisher at Oxford University Press, Australia, where he published a wide range of Oxford reference books and dictionaries.
Since 2001 he has been the editor of the Australian Book Review.
He has also edited two poetry anthologies. In 2009 he appeared on the judging panel for the Prime Minister"s Literary Awards, and in 2011 he judged the National Award.
He has for more than a decade been chairperson of the Robert Rose Foundation, which assists people with spinal cord injuries. An extensive selection of his poetry appears in the Australian Library.
Peter Rose belongs to a famous Collingwood Football Club family.
His father, Bob Rose, was a celebrated Collingwood player and coach. Rose Boys was reissued as a Text Classic in 2013. Peter Rose wrote about his childhood and adolescence in Rose Boys.
He has acknowledged his homosexuality, and his work has appeared in the anthology Out of the box: contemporary Australian gay and lesbian poets.
He lives in Melbourne.
