Writer / Editor / Poet / Dancer

Rose Rouse is a London-based writer who was born in Yorkshire and spends part of the year with her partner, Asanga Judge, in North Wales.

In 2016, she co-founded Advantages of Age – a social enterprise which challenges media stereotypes around ageing. She writes and commissions pieces for the website advantagesofage.com, edits them, and curates the FB group. In 2019, her opinion piece in the Guardian on the inappropriateness of using Granny in headlines about older women received a huge response in terms of new members.

In 2020, she received a grant from Brent2020’s Culture Fund to create the Willesden Junction Poets and their book of poems BeWILDering.

In 2021, she was awarded an Arts Council England grant to put together the performance Dance Me To Death with choreographers, Rhys Dennis and Waddah Sinada from FUBUNATION and a group of Over-60s non-professional dancers. It took place in Kensal Green Cemetery and is being entered for festivals.

Photo: Sam Callahan