About Michael Rowe

Michael Rowe was born in Ottawa, and has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris. They are the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of three novels, as well as an award-winning essayist and a former journalist. Rowe's essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers across North America and Europe, including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Ottawa Citizen, The Huffington Post, SHARP, The Boston Globe and others. Between 2001 and 2009, they were a contributing writer to The Advocate. Rowe is also the author of two books of essays and a book of interviews, and the editor of four anthologies of short fiction. They are the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award, the Spectrum Award, the New York Publishing Triangle Award, and the New Millennium Writing Award, and a finalist for the National Magazine Award and the GLAAD Media Award. In 2022, Rowe wrote the Introduction to Rolling Stone magazine photojournalist Nate Gowdy's monograph of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Insurrection, which won the 2023 Paris Photography Prize. A member of PEN Canada and Amnesty International, Michael Rowe lives in Toronto.