Peter Rose was born in
Wangaratta on 8 June 1955, and grew up there. Rose belongs to a famous
Collingwood Football Club family. His father,
Bob, was a celebrated Collingwood player and coach. His brother,
Robert (1952–1999), also played for Collingwood and, as a cricketer, opened the batting for
Victoria. Rose was educated at
Haileybury, Melbourne and
Monash University. Throughout the 1990s Rose was a publisher at
Oxford University Press, Australia, where he published a wide range of Oxford reference books and dictionaries. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the
Australian Book Review. He has also edited two poetry anthologies. In 2001, Rose published
Rose Boys, a family memoir which won the
National Biography Award in 2003.
Rose Boys was reissued as a
Text Classic in 2013. In 2009 he appeared on the judging panel for the
Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and in 2011 he judged the
National Biography Award. He has for more than a decade been chairperson of the Robert Rose Foundation, which assists people with spinal cord injuries. An extensive selection of his poetry appears in the Australian Poetry Library. Rose's poetry has won several awards. The collection
Crimson Crop, published in 2012, won a
Queensland Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the 2013
Prime Minister's Literary Award. ==Personal life==