Rose Streif

Rose Streif lives near downtown Indianapolis in a 90 year-old house with cats, books, a bearded guy, and vintage motorcycles. In the course of her life she has justified her writing habit by otherwise existing as a movie set extra, an Art History major, a liquor store clerk, a symphony ticket seller, a kitchen prep worker, a carriage driver, night security at an art museum, night security at a natural history museum, and an employee at a theatrical costume shop. Her work is informed by the Midwestern Gothic aesthetic and an interest in history, folklore, mythology, art, and literature. She has been known to read textbooks for fun, and in fact gets most of her ideas from reading non-fiction. While her use of profanity in everyday conversation is is notable, her writing style has been called poetic.