Rosemary Curran, Ph.D. is an author, educator, and urban planner, with interests in women’s issues and human rights, Rose grew up in Seattle, Washington and in Oregon. She owes her interest in writing to her journalist father, and her belief in women's rights to her very independent mother who was a teenager before women earned the right to vote. Rose was a book-lover from an early age, devouring Little Women at least four times by the age of twelve, and reading War and Peace at age fifteen. Rose graduated summa cum laude from Marylhurst College with a major in history.  After an early career teaching French and history, she earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies at Fordham University in 1983.  Her son, Joel, was born in 1983 and her daughter, Aimee, was born in 1987.  She taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Ethics at Wheeling University, Smith College, Phillips Andover Academy, and Seattle University. As a young academic with two preschool children the dilemma of balancing family life and work life was a constant challenge.  That struggle motivated Rose and her co-author Dr. Hull, to write LOVING AND WORKING: REWEAVING WOMEN'S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIVES, published in 1989.  Research for that book, led Rose to discover the Grimké sisters and to resolve to tell their story, and that of their mix-raced nephews, when her life allowed.  ​STONY THE ROAD WE TROD is the family saga of the Grimke sisters and their nephews, spanning nearly a century, and told in two volumes.After her return to Seattle, Rose earned a Masters’ degree in Urban Planning at the University of Washington in 1998. She worked as an urban planning professional for fifteen years.  During that period, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach Urban Planning at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia from 2005 – 2007.  Awarded another Fulbright Fellowship in 2012, she returned to teach at Mekelle University in Tigray, Ethiopia. Finally finding time to write, Rose continues to live and work in her hometown of Seattle, Washington. She intersperses her writing life with playing the cello, tennis, traveling, and spending time with her family and friends. Read more about this authorRead less about this author