Robert Rowe

Robert Rowe is the author of the novel GARAGE SONGS. Mr. Rowe grew up with seven brothers and sisters in Lexington, Massachusetts, where his Dad ran a Chevy dealership. Rowe attended high school in Rangeley, Maine, spending his free time playing guitar, hiking, reading, and ski racing. During his senior year, Rowe’s high school ski team won the state championship. Rowe studied writing at the University of Maine, Farmington with Kenneth Rosen, Wesley McNair, and Bill Roorbach. Later, Rowe studied songwriting and drama at UCLA. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, studying with John Edgar Wideman, Noy Holland, James Tate, and Dara Wier. After college, he worked as an English teacher, car salesman, musician, and dressman. In 2017, he co-founded the Rowe School of Writing, an online writing school. Rowe is the editor of the New England Journal of Poetry and Fiction. His short story “The Violin Player” appeared in the Sandy River Review. He lives in Natick, Massachusetts with his wife and three sons.