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Andy Towle born in Illinois in 1967 is an American artist, poet and journalist based in
Upon graduating, Towle was awarded the 1989 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts from Vassar College. He also received a Wallace Stegner graduate fellowship from 1989 to 1991 from
Towleroad.com
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Provincetown, Massachusetts
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. He has received several fellowships for his poetry and fiction, and his poetry has been published in journals including the Paris Review and Poetry Magazine. He founded widely-read LGBTQ news blog ''Towleroad'' and is now working as a painter.
Background
Towle was born in River Forest, Chicago, Illinois in 1967. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School (’85). Towle holds twoBachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
degrees from Vassar College (’89) in Art History and English.
Career
Upon graduating, Towle was awarded the 1989 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts from Vassar College. He also received a Wallace Stegner graduate fellowship from 1989 to 1991 from Stanford University
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
, and two writing fellowships, one in poetry and one in fiction, from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
.
While in Provincetown he produced poetry, and worked as a pool boy and a bartender at The Boatslip Resort. After moving to New York in 1992, he became a bartender and later a manager at the 1990s Manhattan gay bar Splash.
From 1998 to 2002, Towle served as the editor in chief of ''Genre
Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...
'' magazine, and editor at large for ''The Out Traveler'', an American gay travel quarterly.
Towle's poetry appeared in '' The Yale Review'' (May 1991), '' Ploughshares'' (Winter 1992–93), '' The Paris Review'' in 2000, and in '' Poetry Magazine'' (July 1988, November 1988, February 1991, May 1997, and July 1999).
Towle founded the website ''Towleroad'' in 2003 and left in 2021 to focus full time on a career in visual art.
In June 2024, Towle held his first solo painting show at Provincetown Commons in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
See also
* LGBT culture in New York City * List of LGBT people from New York City * New Yorkers in journalism * NYC Pride March * Poetry analysisReferences
External links
Towleroad.com
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