Janet Towle is a writer and editor wandering between southern Arizona, northern California, and Portland, Oregon. Janet likes to explore the tensions between omniscience and subjectivity, long sentences, and the edges between perspectives. Nonbinary. Collector of blue glass relics. Spoiler of dogs. Known to put too many things on windowsills—but listen, we gotta appreciate that light. Latest projects: a novel about what we do when we feel like the world is ending.
Janet is the founding editor of Manzanita Papers, a literary subscription box dedicated to underrated books. Former roles: head editor of Sonora Review, assistant fiction editor at DIAGRAM, and community strategist at Wirecutter.
Represented by Chris Combemale at Sterling Lord Literistic.
- Page of Cups, DIAGRAM 20th Anniversary Tarot Deck
- Like You Own the Road, Mississippi Review 47.3
- Modal Window, New England Review
- Excerpts from Modal Window, Episode 3 of NER Out Loud, performed by Becca Berlind and Sam Tompkins Martin
- Chiriaco Summit + Waxing + Spectacle + The Sonoran Semi-Arid, New South 17.1
- The Components of a Union, Passages North Issue 39
- And it is my fault, Carve Magazine Fall 2016, Winner of the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest
- And it is my fault, featured in Episode 92 of Literary Roadhouse
- Plumbed, Eleven Eleven Issue 21
- Lodestone & Weathervane, The Normal School Fall 2015