Hampshire College

Michael Lowenthal, visiting assistant professor of fiction writing, received his B.A. from Dartmouth College. He is the author of three novels: The Same Embrace (Dutton, 1998), Avoidance (Graywolf Press, 2002), and Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), which was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” title, a Washington Post “Top Fiction of 2007” selection, and a Book Sense Top Twenty Pick. His stories and essays have appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine,Esquire.com, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and Nerve.com, and have been anthologized in more than twenty books, including Best New American Voices 2005 and Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge. Lowenthal has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers' conferences, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Scotland, and the Sacatar Foundation in Brazil. He won the 2009 James Duggins Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist and the 2010 Thornton Writer Residency at Lynchburg College.
Since 2003, he has been a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Lesley University. His fourth novel, The Paternity Test, is scheduled for publication in 2012.

Recent Courses
IA-0251: Sexuality and Storytelling: Fiction Writing Workshop for Advanced Students (Spring 2012)
IA-0216: Truthful Invention: Fiction Writing Workshop for Advanced Students (Fall 2011)