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Rosaleen Love Rosaleen Love i(A32246 works by) (a.k.a. Rosaleen Lucille Love)
Born: Established: 1940 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Irish
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BiographyHistory

Rosaleen Love grew up in sub-tropical Queensland surrounded by science and writing. She attended Ipswich Girls' Grammar prior to studying science at the University of Queensland and at Cambridge University. Love undertook her PhD studies at the University of Melbourne during the 1970s. She has lectured in the history and philosophy of science and in professional writing, teaching at the Swinburne University of Technology and the Victoria University of Technology.

With her background steeped in science, Love has authored many speculative fiction stories. A number of these have been published in collections and anthologies, notably The Total Devotion Machine (1989), Evolution Annie (1993), She's Fantastical (1995), Dreaming Down Under (1998), Forever Shores (2003), The Travelling Tide (2005). Her writing has also appeared in Eidolon, Aphelion, Island, Meanjin, Westerly, Arena Magazine, The Rhizome Factor, Overland, and Australian Book Review.

The daughter of pseudonymously named romantic fiction author Mary Bishop, Love is the mother of fantasy writer Penelope Love and was the wife of Harold Love (1937-2007).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2009 A. Bertram Chandler Award
2006 shortlisted Ditmar Awards William Atheling Jr Award For PK Dick: The Exhilaration and the Terror.

Awards for Works

Qasida 2014 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Secret Lives of Books 2014;
2015 shortlisted Washington Science Fiction Small Press Award
y separately published work icon Secret Lives of Books Yokine : Twelfth Planet Press , 2014 7191443 2014 selected work short story science fiction

'Secret Lives of Books is the much anticipated all new original collection of short stories from one of Australia’s most respected and loved science fiction writers. Winner of the Chandler Award for outstanding achievement in Australian science fiction, Rosaleen Love’s previous collections Total Devotion Machine and Evolution Annie were published by the Women’s Press alongside classic works by Joanna Russ, Suzy McKee Charnas and Octavia Butler.' (Publication summary)

2014 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Best Collection
2015 finalist Locus Awards Collection
Treasure Hunt 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 311 2009; (p. 15-19)
Rosaleen Love, in the final months of her husband's life, lit upon the idea that in examining her husband's books she would 'get to know the man I married'. In this essay, Love reflects on the discoveries made as she conducted her 'treasure hunt'.
2009 longlisted The Calibre Prize
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