Rosaliene was born in Georgetown, Republic of Guyana - a member state of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and South America's only English-speaking nation.
Graduating as a geographer from the University of Guyana, she started her professional life as a high school geography and art teacher. When she moved to the business sector, her experience in the Foreign Trade Department of a British international bank introduced her to international trade documents and foreign trade payments.
When Rosaliene migrated to Northeast Brazil in 1987, her fluency in English was the stepping-stone to a new career in international trade. As an import-export manager, she worked with clients in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Rosaliene relocated to the United States in 2003 and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Today, she focuses on her writing projects. She has six short stories published in the Guyana Journal Magazine (New York/USA). The story of her life in Brazil, titled "From Calypso to Samba," is included in Cane Rovers: Stories of the Chinese-Guyanese Diaspora (Canada, 2012) by Guyanese-Canadian Trev Sue- A-Quan. (Rosaliene's paternal grandfather was a Chinese immigrant to what was then the colony of British Guiana.)
Published in August 2019, her novel, Under the Tamarind Tree, about a son forced to suffer for the sins of his unfaithful father, was shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize 2014. Her second novel, The Twisted Circle, the story of a young nun's journey to self-determination in a patriarchal world, was released on August 24, 2021. During the period 1971 to 1977, Rosaliene spent seven years as a religious sister in a Catholic convent.
Through her blog, Three Worlds One Vision: Guyana - Brazil - USA, Rosaliene connects with readers in the Guyana Diaspora, Brazil, the USA, and across the globe.
Rosaliene, a Charter member of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society (GLAWS), lives with her two sons in Los Angeles, California, where she enjoys spending time in her garden of succulent and other plants.
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