Rosaleen Love is a graduate of the universities of Queensland (in science), Cambridge and Melbourne (in the history and philosophy of science).

Rosaleen Love began her fiction-writing career with the short story 'The Laws of Life', which won the Fellowship of Australian Writers, State of Victoria Short Story Award for 1983. She has published two collections of science fiction short stories with the Women's Press, London, The Total Devotion Machine (1989) and Evolution Annie (1993) and edited an anthology of Australian science writing, If Atoms Could Talk , for Greenhouse Press (1987). Her short stories and essays have been widely anthologised both in mainstream and in science fiction anthologies, e.g., Heroines, Glass Reptile Breakout, Millenium, Women of Wonder, The Art of the Story, Coast to Coast, The Women's Press Book of New Myth and Magic, Alien Shores, Metaworlds, She's Fantastical, Dreaming Down Under, Women of Other Worlds, The Oxford Book of Australian Schooldays and Colombus' Blindness.

Her most recent book is a collection of stories on sea themes, The Traveling Tide, is published with Aqueduct Press, Seattle, in their Conversation Pieces Series, 2005.

From 1989-1990 she was contributing editor, science and technology, to The Age Monthly Review. From 1986- 1990 she was science columnist for Australian Society, alternating with Ian Lowe. She is on the editorial advisory boards of The Journal of Futures Studies and Meanjin. Her non-fiction book Reefscape, a series of essays on the meaning of the Great Barrier Reef, was published in 2000 by Allen and Unwin, Sydney, and in 2001 by Joseph Henry Press, USA, an imprint of the National Academies Press, Washington. This book is available to read, free, online courtesy of the commitment of the US National Academies press to make its science publications freely available to the public. (http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10014.html )She has also compiled an anthology of Australian science writing, If Atoms Could Talk, Greenhouse Press, 1987.

Once she was a university teacher, first in the history and philosophy of science, and later in creative writing, at Swinburne and Victoria Universities, Melbourne. Currently she is a research associate at Latrobe and Monash Universities, Melbourne, and teaches Writing Fiction at Latrobe. For a while, she was even in demand as a futurist, despite her own sense of helpless ignorance about the topic. Futurists, however, are wild people who like wild ideas, and for a while, she felt quite at home in their company.

For an author interview, see 'Fishness', and author interview, Terrain, 2002 at http://www.terrain.org/essays/12/love.htm