Josephine Rowe

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction

In short vignettes and longer stories, Josephine Rowe explores the idea of things that are left behind: souvenirs, scars, prejudice. These beautifully wrought, bittersweet stories capture everyday life in restrained poetic prose, merging themes of co...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction

"I found myself considering those rare things only books can do, feats outside the purview of film or fine art . . . Gorgeous." -- Samantha Hunt, The New York Times Book ReviewIt is New Year’s Eve 1990, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ruâ€...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction

"Here Until August tracks the shimmer of precarious moments and transient moods with devastating precision. In their steady excavation of intimacy, these spacious stories bring Alice Munro to mind. I underlined sentence after sentence as I read: for ...

• Aug-2025
• / Women's Fiction

“Little World holds tenderness, rage, faith and grace, and it does so in language—so precise, so exacting—it seems, at once, to cut through and join together the complexities of our relations. Each new work from Josephine Rowe is a ...