Rosalie Warren lives in Coventry with her partner, Paul, and between them they have four grown-up children. She was born in West Yorkshire but spent most of her adult life in Scotland, living in Edinburgh for 22 years and Dundee for a further three. She has an MA in Natural Sciences and Education from Cambridge (New Hall), an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh and a PhD, also from Edinburgh, in Cognitive Science. She's done a fair number of jobs, including teaching and lecturing a variety of subjects at different levels. She has taught maths and chemistry to marine engineers, hairdressing science to trainee hair-stylists, maths and English as a home tutor and linguistics, computing and artificial intelligence to university students. She's also helped supervise a number of PhDs.

During periods of low activity on the more academic front she's run her own business as a gardener and pursued her dream to become a published writer.