Josephine Rowe lives in Melbourne's inner-west. Her fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Best Australian Stories, Best Australian Poems, The Iowa Review, Griffith Review, The Australian Book Review, the Age, and Dumbo Feather, among others, and have been reinterpreted as short films, performance pieces and broadcast on radio. Josephine's first collection of short stories, How a Moth Becomes a Boat, was published in 2010 by Hunter Publishers, and she attended the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2011. Her new short story collection, Tarcutta Wake, is published by UQP.