Back Desk
Jenny RoweFlash essays that share details on writing & publishing creative nonfiction, being a bookseller, and trying to get my first book into the world from Iowa City. Hoping to level up & offer online writing classes at some point...more on this soon.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 54 | Subscribers | Read | backdesk.substack.com |
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Bestsellers & Returns: December 2025
Here we are, the end of another year. I’ve been thinking about 2025 this past week and trying to rate it somehow. Was it a good year or just so-so, and how do I even go about measuring this? I’m writing tonight’s entry from a hotel room in ...
Venturing Out to Look In
Hi friends! It’s a frigid afternoon in Iowa City, but at my writing desk I’m warm and surprisingly hopeful for the upcoming new year. I had my last therapy session of 2025 this morning, and when my therapist asked for a weekly recap, I was ...
Returning to our child self
We’re about a week away from the winter solstice, and I can feel it in my body: a desire to slow down, get quiet. I got to do a bit of that last night since a fresh blanket of snow made my Prairie Lights shift especially still. The bookstor...
Seeking...something
Iowa City is still covered in snow and chilly, but I’m treating myself to a sublime morning of warm coffee and writing at my own back desk—my writing desk at home. Strangely, I did very little of this during Thanksgiving week (in which I ha...
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Jenny Rowe (she/her) is a writer and bookseller in Iowa City, Iowa. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana in creative nonfiction and was the 2023-24 Editor in Chief of CutBank Literary Magazine. She's working on her first book, a memoir.
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