John Rowell is a native of North Carolina, now living in New York City, where he conducts a seminar and writes theater criticism. His fiction, essays, and reviews have been featured in Tin House, Bloom, and Show Business Weekly, among others. He holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College in Vermont. He teaches English and Fiction Writing at The Gilman School of Baltimore, MD, where he also directs in the Upper School theater program.

Jill McCorkle The true brilliance of John Rowell's stories is that he holds the reader perfectly suspended between hysterical laughter and unshakeable heartbreak. His vision encompasses the quirky details of everyday life as well as the biggest, darkest, unanswerable questions. If Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote ever had a love child, his name would be John Rowell. The godparents might well be Oscar Wilde and Carson McCullers. The Music of Your Life bears the blessings of that literary parentage along with a contemporary spin that places Rowell in his own wonderful orbit. Long may he shine.

John Rowell is a native of North Carolina, now living in New York City, where he conducts a seminar and writes theater criticism. His fiction, essays, and reviews have been featured in Tin House, Bloom, and Show Business Weekly, among others. He holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College in Vermont. He teaches English and Fiction Writing at The Gilman School of Baltimore, MD, where he also directs in the Upper School theater program.

Jill McCorkle The true brilliance of John Rowell's stories is that he holds the reader perfectly suspended between hysterical laughter and unshakeable heartbreak. His vision encompasses the quirky details of everyday life as well as the biggest, darkest, unanswerable questions. If Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote ever had a love child, his name would be John Rowell. The godparents might well be Oscar Wilde and Carson McCullers. The Music of Your Life bears the blessings of that literary parentage along with a contemporary spin that places Rowell in his own wonderful orbit. Long may he shine.

John Rowell is a native of North Carolina, now living in New York City, where he conducts a seminar and writes theater criticism. His fiction, essays, and reviews have been featured in Tin House, Bloom, and Show Business Weekly, among others. He holds an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Bennington College in Vermont. He teaches English and Fiction Writing at The Gilman School of Baltimore, MD, where he also directs in the Upper School theater program.

Jill McCorkle The true brilliance of John Rowell's stories is that he holds the reader perfectly suspended between hysterical laughter and unshakeable heartbreak. His vision encompasses the quirky details of everyday life as well as the biggest, darkest, unanswerable questions. If Dorothy Parker and Truman Capote ever had a love child, his name would be John Rowell. The godparents might well be Oscar Wilde and Carson McCullers. The Music of Your Life bears the blessings of that literary parentage along with a contemporary spin that places Rowell in his own wonderful orbit. Long may he shine.