Rowena House

ROWENA HOUSE spent years as a journalist in France, Africa and then again in Europe before turning to fiction. She visited the First World War battlefields of the Western Front repeatedly to research her prize-winning WW1 short story, The Marshalling of Angelique’s Geese (WAR GIRLS, 2014) and again for her debut novel, THE GOOSE ROAD (Walker 2018). Her fascination with the Great War, the trenches, and the appalling artillery battles of the Somme and Verdun began at school when studying the war poets, Wilfred Owen in particular. As an adult she experienced war first-hand as a Reuter’s foreign correspondent in Ethiopia, and saw its terrible impact on civilians. Now settled in the English countryside with her husband and son, Rowena holds a Master’s degree in rural economics and another in creative writing, and mentors fiction writers alongside her journalism and storytelling.