Rosa Shand, an original Hub City writer, is a fiction writer living in Davidson, N.C. Her stories have appeared in journals such as The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and The South Carolina Review. In 1998, while teaching English at Converse College, she published three short stories in Hub City's fiction collection, New Southern Harmonies, which also includes work by George Singleton, Scott Gould, and Deno Trakas.

Shand is a graduate of Randolph-Macon College and the University of Texas at Austin. For her short stories, she is the recipient of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize; six South Carolina Fiction Project awards; and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project, which aired one of her stories on NPR. Shand has also read her work at the Library of Congress. Her work is also published in Hub City Christmas, In Morgan's Shadow, and Inheritance, all published by Hub City.

In 1994-1995, she was selected as the South Carolina Fellow in Fiction; in 2000-2001, she held an individual artist's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Shand has also been the Scherman Fellow at the MacDowell Colony, a Dakin Fellow at Sewanee and has been elected to membership in the Texas Institute of Letters. Shand's novel, The Gravity of Sunlight (2000), was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; it also won the Jesse Jones Award for Best Fiction and the Stephen Turner Award for Best First Fiction.