Rose Vines has led a trans-Pacific existence, growing up in Sydney, Australia, and, in a moment of mid-life madness, finding her way to New Orleans, Louisiana. Rose’s resume lists a motley assortment of jobs. She’s been a counsellor in a women’s refuge and a rape crisis center; a computer programmer in a bank and a publishing house; a national-award-winning technology journalist with over 3,000 bylined articles to her credit; and a media strategist and writer for a Louisiana-based anti-death penalty organisation.