Back Desk
Jenny RoweFlash essays about life as an emerging writer, creative nonfiction, bookselling at Prairie Lights, and my journey to first-book publication from Iowa City. 100% of all subscription fees and random donations go to One Iowa (https://oneiowa.org/).
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Resident Season
Current draft (#5) of Gate Mouth: 200 pages. For now, I’m considering this draft done. It feels ready to send out into the world again.
Back Desk Breakdown: April 2026
Current draft (#5) of Gate Mouth: Are you ready for it?? (*drumroll*)…183 pages in & probably only 30ish to go! Granted, most of these pages were previously written and have since been revised, but I wrote a new, really tough scene this pas...
Time Thoughts
Current draft (#5) of Gate Mouth: 152 pages in & maybe only 60 or 70 to go…returned to the manuscript this past week after some gentle encouragement.
"Chords of inquiry"
Hi everyone. I write this week’s post from home in Iowa City; a gray sky accompanies me, and it’s cool enough in my office that I have the little sideboard heater turned on low. We may be in spring, but the Midwest has other plans.
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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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