Beginner’s pluck: English teacher and Waterford native Rose Keating

These weird, unsettling stories in 'Oddbody' focused on the body explore themes of desire, anxiety, and shame. How far can the human form be pushed and subverted?

After graduating from UCC, Rose Keating moved to Norwich, but covid struck, so her MA in creative writing was all online. Picture: Christopher Orpen

A prolific reader, Rose has always been drawn towards horror — and as a child avidly read her mother’s collection.

“There was a lot of Stephen King, and Anne Rice,” she says.