Connie Barnes Rose was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and moved to Montreal where she completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Concordia University. She published her first short story in 1987 in Fiddlehead Magazine and went on to publish stories in a variety of magazines and anthologies, such as Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops (1997), and local anthologies such as Telling Tales, New Fiction from Quebec. In 1997 she published her collection of linked stories entitled Getting Out of Town, which was short listed for two prestigious awards, The QSPELL Award and the Dartmouth Award. She lives in Montreal, teaches Creative Writing at Concordia University spends her summers in Nova Scotia. In 2005 she won the C.B.C. Short Fiction Award.