Michael Lowenthal

Bio

Michael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl (which was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Washington Post Top Fiction of 2007 pick), and The Paternity Test (an Indie Next selection and a Lambda Literary Award finalist). His short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Guernica, True Story, and Kenyon Review, and have been widely anthologized. He has written for New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Out, and many other publications. His first story collection, Sex With Strangers, was published in March 2021. Since 2003, Lowenthal has been a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston.