Career
He has written for numerous publications in Canada and the United States including the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The United Church Observer, The Huffington Post and The Advocate. As an author, Rowe has published two novels, a novella, four anthologies of original short fiction, and a variety of non-fiction books His first, Writing Below the Belt: Conversations with Erotic Authors was an exploration of censorship, pornography, and popular culture.
Looking for Brothers contains essays on the contemporary gay experience.
His first novel, Enter, Night, a vampire story set in Northern Ontario in 1972, was published in October 2011 by ChiZine Publications, and sold in the spring of 2012 to Random House Germany for translation. On April 13, 2012, Enter, Night was announced as a finalist for Canada"s prestigious Prix Aurora Awards in the English Language Novel category.
The Prix Aurora Awards are awarded annually to celebrate the best in Canadian speculative fiction. The jury said of Rowe"s novel, "After the post-Twilight tsunami of toothless vampire fiction, this nightmare-inducing novel offers a decidedly welcome return to the emotional, physical, and spiritual hells invoked by the best vampire tales.
The small northern Ontario town of Parr"s Landing in 1972 is a place where history bleeds, both literally and figuratively.
Horrors both human and other-than-human have haunted the town for generations, and while some people flee the place, they find themselves summoned back to face the hungry darkness that reaches out to claim this secret-riven community. Richly textured and filled with complex, convincing personalities, as well as being a truly frightening read, Enter, Night is a chilling foray into the emotional, sexual, and ideological horrors we create for one another."
In December 2013, Rowe"s second novel, Wild Fell, a classic gothic ghost story set in Canada"s Georgian Bay region was published by ChiZine Publications. Wild Fell was subsequently a finalist for the 2013 Shirley Jackson Award, and will be published in French by Paris-based Editions Bragelonne in 2015.
Novelist Clive Barker credited Rowe"s Queer Fear books as having changed the landscape of horror fiction.
They currently reside in Toronto.