David Rose, born 1949, resident in Britain, is now retired after a working life in the Post Office. His short stories are published widely in the UK and US, including in The Penguin Book of the Contemporary Short Story (ed. Philip Hensher, 2018) and partly collected in Interpolated Stories (Confingo, 2022) and Posthumous Stories (Salt, 2013). He is the author of two novels: Vault (Salt, 2011) and Meridian (Unthank Books, 2015).