Amy Rowland is the author of Inside the Wolf and The Transcriptionist, winner of the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Rowland's work has been published or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Lit Hub, New Letters, and elsewhere. Originally from North Carolina, she now lives in Berkeley, CA. In addition to MacDowell, her work has been supported by the NEA and the Norman Mailer Center.
At MacDowell in 2026, Rowland worked on her third novel, tentatively titled Bring Me the Dark, about three generations of women in rural North Carolina.
