Rosie Garland FRSL (born 1960) is a British novelist, poet and singer with post-punk band The March Violets.

[6] From 2001 she was the victim of a stalker, with the 2007 court case featured as a lead article in the Manchester Evening News.

[7][8] In 2009 she was diagnosed with throat cancer and successfully treated at The Christie Hospital in Manchester.

[9][10][11][12][13] Her debut novel The Palace of Curiosities won the inaugural Mslexia Novel Competition in 2012 and was published by HarperCollins.

This work is set in a Victorian freak show, where the central character Eve has hypertrichosis, a condition where the entire body is covered in hair.