Rosemary Lim is from Northern Ireland and has lived in Singapore since 1990. Besides being a writer and editor, she has a strong interest in the lesser-known aspects Singapore’s history, including the areas that have connections with well-known writers. She is Singapore's only licensed Specialised Literary Tour Guide.

In 1998 she was co-winner of the Singapore Literature Prize Merit Award with a book of short stories entitled The Seed from the Tree. The following year she was a Commonwealth Short Story Competition Asia-Pacific Runner-up. In 2006 she edited a book of novel excerpts from 19 Singapore writers So You Think You Can Write A Novel Rosemary has two master’s degrees, the first in publishing and the second in writing.

An Irish woman's celebration of the Irish in Singapore.