Rose Himber Howse is a fiction writer and essayist from North Carolina. She is currently a lecturer in the Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at Stanford University, where she was a 2021-23 Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction. Rose has also been a Steinbeck fellow in fiction at San Jose State University, and has received fellowships or supported residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Monson Arts, and Jentel. Her work appears or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Joyland, Hobart, The Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere, and she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as fiction editor of The Greensboro Review.
Selected writing
“Easier in Others.” ZYZZYVA.
“‘We Are Shards of Others’: A Review of My Autobiography of Carson McCullers.” The Carolina Quarterly.
“Meet the Abortion Clinic Escorts Shielding Patients From Harassment.” YES! Magazine.
“Muscadine Wine.” Sonora Review.
“Interview with Rose Himber Howse, Fiction Editor.” The Greensboro Review Blog.
“An Interview with Garth Greenwell.” Dead Darlings. (Notable mention in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018.)