John Rowell
John Rowell is the author of the short story collection The Music of Your Life (Simon and Schuster), which was named a Dazzling Debut/Breakout Book of Spring, 2003 at Amazon.com, and was also a finalist for the 2004 Ferro-Grumley Prize for Best Fiction Book of the Year. A native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, John holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an M.F.A. in writing and literature from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College. He is the recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Sewanee Writers Conference (Walter E. Dakin Fellow, 2004), The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and the Kimmel-Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Rowell served for two years as the Reginald S. Tickner Fellow/Writer-In-Residence at The Gilman School of Baltimore, Maryland, where he is now a member of the permanent Upper School faculty, teaching English and creative writing and directing in the theater program. He has previously taught creative writing at Mediabistro in New York City, Loyola College, University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, and in the M.F.A. program at University of Baltimore. Rowell's fiction, essays and reviews have been featured in such publications as Tin House, Bloom and Show Business Weekly, among others.
