Cynthia Rogerson

 

Prizewinning author Cynthia Rogerson writes  mainstream literary fiction set in Scotland and California. She is the author of five novels, one of which is under the pen name Addison Jones.  She has also published a memoir and a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies,  broadcast on BBC radio, and translated into five languages.

She won the V.S.Pritchett Prize in 2008. I Love You Goodbye was short-listed for Best Scottish Novel 2011 and serialised on BBC Women’s Hour. Her memoir Wah! was shortlisted for the 2022 Highland Book Prize.

She holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship. Originally from the San Francisco area, she's been based in the Scottish Highlands since 1985 and lives with her husband and dogs near Inverness.