Kate Martin Rowe was born in Omaha, Nebraska, reared in Texas and New Mexico, and came of age at the base of the San Gabriel mountains in Los Angeles. Her nonfiction and poetry have appeared in the MUTHA magazine, Hypertext Review, Fourth Genre, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brevity, Angel City Review, Hotel Amerika, Denver Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Zyzzyva and elsewhere. Two of her essays have been finalists for Writing Fellowships at A Public Space, and her poetry manuscript, Avowed, was a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize at YESYES Books in 2024. Her nonfiction manuscript, Barren, was recently a finalist for a developmental editing fellowship at The Kenyon Review. She holds an MA in English and creative writing from California State University Northridge and MFA in creative nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She teaches writing at Glendale Community College and lives in northeast Los Angeles with her husband, four children, and one hotdog of a dog named Buster.

kate.martinrowe@gmail.com