"I start each story with the discovery of a piece of information that resonates with something inside of myself. I feel empathy, curiosity, and desire to find out more." Rosetta Allan

Rosetta Allan is a bestselling author of three novels: Purgatory (2014), The Unreliable People (2019), and  
Crazy Love (2021), all published by Penguin Random House, as well as two volumes of poetry,  Little Rock (2007) and Over Lunch (2010).

Her work has been widely recognised through awards and residencies, including the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, the Metonymy Poetry Award, the Wallace Trust Scholarship, and international residencies in St Petersburg, Russia. She has held residencies at the Michael King Writers’ Centre and was the University of Waikato's Creative New Zealand Writer-in-Residence in 2019. 
In 2025, she was awarded the CLNZ | NZSA Research Grant to support the development of her forthcoming novel, The Good Uncle, which was also shortlisted in 2026 for the Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize.

Beyond her own writing, Rosetta teaches and mentors across several universities, writing schools, and festivals, is a public speaker, and frequently chairs author interview sessions. She is a sought-after manuscript assessor, known for her constructive and detailed feedback that empowers writers at all stages of their careers.