Shelly Lowenkopf

Gender: Male
Industry: Publishing
Occupation: writer, editor, teacher
Location: Santa Barbara : CA : United States

About Me

Shelly Lowenkopf has been publishing short fiction, pulp novels, essays, and reviews since the late ’50s. His book reviews have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, The Los Angeles Free Press,The National Catholic Reporter, The Santa Barbara News-Press, The Santa Barbara Independent. He has had a weekly book-review column in the Montecito Journal since 2005. As an editor for general trade, literary, scholarly, and massmarket book publishers, as well as a freelance consultant, he has seen well over 500 books through the editorial process and into the bookstores. He is now editor in chief of Meta4 Press, an electronic publisher of books and shortform material. He has been a core faculty member of the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California for over 30 years. He has also taught creative writing, critical theory, and fiction-related courses at UCSB, Westmont College, and Antioch University (Santa Barbara). Since 1980, he has led the late-night fiction workshop at the Santa Barbara Writers’ Conference.