
As the creator and editor of the groundbreaking anthologies Queer Fear (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000) and Queer Fear 2

His essays, articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of periodicals in Canada and the United States, including the National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Boston Globe, The Advocate, The Huffington Post, and CNQ, and in a variety of anthologies including Best Canadian Essays. His first book, Writing Below The Belt: Conversations With Erotic Authors (Richard Kasak Books, 1995) was a study of erotica and popular culture as seen through the eyes of fourteen of America’s best erotica authors, as well as a devastating indictment of censorship in literature and the arts. An award essayist and former journalist, he is the author of two essay collections, Looking For Brothers (Mosaic Press, 1999) and Other Men’s Sons (Cormorant Books, 2008), which won Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction from the New York Publishing Triangle. French translations of Wild Fell were published by Editions Bragelonne in Paris in 20. All three novels were reissued in new editions by Open Road Media in 2020. He is the author of three novels-Enter, Night (2011), Wild Fell (2013), and October (2017). He considers it his proudest moment as a new media journalist.Michael Rowe was born in Ottawa, and has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris. A contributing writer to The Advocate, in 2009 The Atlantic Monthly's Andrew Sullivan nominated Rowe for the Michael Moore Award "for divisive, bitter and intemperate left-wing rhetoric" for his work on The Huffington Post for which he is a political blogger. He is the author of several books, including Writing Below the Belt, a critically acclaimed study of censorship, pornography, and popular culture, and the essay collections Looking for Brothers and Other Men's Sons, which won the 2008 Randy Shilts Award for Nonfiction.


He has been a finalist for both the Canadian National Magazine Award and the Associated Church Press Award in the United States.

His work has appeared in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, the United Church Observer, and numerous other publications. He is an award-winning independent journalist who has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris. In 2003, Michael Rowe became the first Arsenal Pulp Press author to win a Lambda Literary Award, for Queer Fear II, the sequel to his first critically-acclaimed queer horror anthology, Queer Fear.
