Michael Lowenthal (Fiction, MFA Writing Faculty) will feature in White Whale’s virtual events series for his latest, Sex with Strangers. He’ll be joined by local author and professor, William Lychack, author of Cargill Falls, for a reading.

Michael Lowenthal is the author of four novels: The Same Embrace, Avoidance, Charity Girl, and  The Paternity Test. His short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, the  Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, the New York Times Magazine, True Story, Guernica, and The Rumpus, and have been widely anthologized. The recipient of fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Wesleyan writers’ conferences, the MacDowell Colony, and the Mass Cultural Council, Lowenthal has taught creative writing at Boston College and Hampshire College, and as the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at Leipzig University. Since 2003, he has been a faculty member in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing program at Lesley University.

William Lychack is the author of Cargill Falls, The Wasp Eater, and The Architect of Flowers, and his work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Best Small Fictions, and on public radio’s This American Life. He currently teaches at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is Director of the Graduate Writing Program.