Sybil Rosen is an international, award-winning, published novelist, playwright, and memoirist. Her novel for young readers Speed of Light was published by Atheneum (Simon & Schuster) in 1999. It won the 1999 Sydney Taylor Award for Older Readers and was nominated for the 2000 Mark Twain Award. The novel was subsequently published in German by Verlag Urachhaus in 2001. A short story "Shannon" was included in the German anthology for teenagers Mensch Sucht Sinn and was translated into Spanish, Catalon, and Slovene. Rosen's plays have been produced world-wide. Her full-length play Brink of Devotion won the 1987 Berrilla Kerr Award and was a participant in the 1986 Sundance Playwriting Institute in Provo, Utah. Duet for Bear and Dog, a ten-minute play, was published in Take Ten: A Ten-Minute Play Anthology by Vintage Press in 1997 and has received over 200 productions around the world.

Last of the Speckled Catfish was a finalist in the 2008 National Ten-Minute Play Contest. Her memoir of Texas music legend Blaze Foley, Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley, was published by The University of North Texas Press in 2008, #2 in their Live of Musicians Series. Riding the Dog is her first collection of short stories.