Rose Himber Howse is a queer writer from North Carolina. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford University, where she was a 2021-23 Wallace Stegner fellow in fiction. Rose has also been a Steinbeck fellow in fiction at San Jose State University, and has received fellowships or supported residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Monson Arts, and Jentel. Her short fiction and essays appear in ZYZZYVA, Joyland, Hobart, The Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere, and she holds an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she served as fiction editor of The Greensboro Review.

Her debut novel, Tricks of the Light, is forthcoming from Celadon Books in 2028.