Judge for Dundee International Book Prize 2010

Cynthia Rogerson is a Californian living in Ross-shire. Her first novel, Upstairs in the Tent, was published in 2001; her short stories and poems have been short-listed for competitions, anthologised, published in literary magazines and broadcast on BBC radio. In 2008 she won the VS Pritchett short story award. She is the co-director of Moniack Mhor, an Arvon Writing Centre in Inverness-shire.

Her second novel, Love Letters from my Deathbed, was published in 2007, and her next novel I Love You Goodbye, will be published in July.

Cynthia says, “I am very excited to be a judge on the Dundee International Book Prize. It’s very good news indeed that new writers are given this chance, in a crazy impossibly difficult phase of publishing”