Michael Lowenthal

Michael Lowenthal is the author of a story collection, Sex with Strangers, and four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl (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). The recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, he was also awarded the James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize at Saints and Sinners 2009. Lowenthal’s most recent book is a memoir-in-essays, Place Envy, published in 2026. He lives in Boston and Pittsburgh.