Rose Tomaszewska graduated from UEA and worked for thirteen years in publishing, as Editorial Director at Chatto & Windus (Vintage, Penguin Random House), Virago (Little, Brown) and riverrun (Quercus). Authors she's published have won or been shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, the Orwell Prize, the Women's Prize, the Bailie Gifford Prize. She has taught at Arvon, various universities and literary festivals and in women’s prison, as well as running the Faber Edit & Submit Course since 2020. Currently she is a freelance editor and reviews new fiction for a literary scout.

Her teaching style is hands-on, imaginative and interactive, valuing exercises over lecturing and encouraging students to collaborate and develop new skills, with a lot of positivity and laughter along the way.