Josephine Rowe is the author of three story collections and a novel, A Loving, Faithful Animal, and has twice been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. She won the 2016 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, and holds fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University, the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and the BR Whiting Studio in Rome. Her latest books are the story collection Here Until August, and On Beverley Farmer, a contribution to the Black Inc. Writers on Writers series. For 2021–22 she will be in residence as a Cullman Centre Fellow at the New York Public Library.