Josephine Rowe is a Melbourne writer whose collection of short stories, How a Moth Becomes a Boat, was published in 2010 by Hunter Publishers.

Her poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Best Australian Poems, Best Australian Stories, HEAT, Overland, Dumbo Feather, Island, The Age, Australian Book Review, harvest and Going Down Swinging.

She is working on a second collection of stories, to be published by UQP in 2012.

Photo: Greg Bal