Courtney Lowery Cowgill

At Johns Hopkins, Courtney Lowery Cowgill serves as a lecturer in the MA in Writing program.

Lowery Cowgill writes, edits, and teaches from a small farm on the central Montana plains in the shadow of the Rocky Mountain Front. Her literary work explores our bonds with landscapes and the bonds that are formed because of those landscapes. Her poetry has been published in When Flowers Sing, an anthology by a thousand flowers books. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Daily Yonder, New West, and the Montanan, and her journalism work, both as an editor and reporter, has appeared in news publications across the U.S.

In addition to her work as a writer and freelance editor, Lowery Cowgill also teaches at the University of Montana School of Journalism. She holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Montana and an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.