Rosanne Hawke is a SA author of 30 books for young people. She has been a teacher, a lecturer in creative writing at Tabor Adelaide, and worked with a mission agency in Pakistan and UAE. Her books explore cultural and social issues, Cornish folklore, history, mystery, family and faith. She often writes of displacement, belonging and reconciliation and tells stories of children unheard. Taj and the Great Camel Trek won the Adelaide Festival Award for Children’s Literature and was highly commended in the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Rosanne is the recipient of the Nance Donkin Award for a woman author who writes for children. She writes in an underground room near Kapunda.
For more information about Rosanne, visit her website and Facebook page.
Rosanne's books with Rhiza Press include:
Dear Pakistan
The War Within
Liana's Dance
Finding Kerra
Zenna Dare
Mustara
Flying Blind
Finding Kerra
Chandani and the Ghost of the Forest
Pepper Masalah and the Flying Carpet
Pepper Masalah and the Temple of Cats
Pepper Masalah and the Giant Bird
Pepper Masalah and the Disappearing Rope
Pepper Masalah and the Kashmiri Princess
Rosanne has short stories in these anthologies with Rhiza Press:
Crossed Spaces
Under a Different Sky (coming in October 2026)