Rosy Carrick

Rosy Carrick is a writer and performer whose work charts an unusually eclectic trajectory. Her debut poetry collection Chokey was published by Burning Eye in 2018, and her debut play Passionate Machine won the award for Best New Play at Brighton Finge, and The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence at Edinburgh Fringe in 2018, before touring internationally throughout 2019.

Between 2022 and 2024, Rosy co-wrote a new videogame with ZA/UM studio, the makers of the explosively successful and multi-award-winning Disco Elysium.

Her second play Musclebound focused on the power and performance of female sexuality via tortured 80s beefcake, and motherhood, was on tour 2024-25.

Rosy has co-hosted the Glastonbury Poetry & Words stage for the last decade. She co-hosted the Latitude poetry stage between 2011 and 2016, and was co-curator and co-host of the Port Eliot poetry stage between 2017 and 2019. She ran the monthly performance poetry event Hammer & Tongue Brighton between 2008 and 2015, as well as the annual Poets vs MCs event at Brighton’s Concorde 2.

Rosy has a PhD on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and has released two books of his work in translation: Volodya (Enitharmon, 2015) and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Smokestack, 2017). She is currently working on Dochka: a new collection of Mayakovsky's never-before-translated poetry for children.