Rose Gowen is an American writer living in Montreal with her family. She has a BA from Simon's Rock College of Bard and an MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from the University of the Arts. She works as a freelance editor and literary odd-jobs woman (www.rosegowenediting.com). Her writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and American Short Fiction (online), among other places. She attended Bread Loaf in 2018 and again, with a scholarship, in 2024. In 2019, she taught an 8-week course on very short fiction at the Quebec Writers' Federation. In 2020, she went to Banff for a writing retreat.