Andy Towle Explained

Andy Towle
Occupation:Writer, publisher, and media commentator
Education:Vassar College (BA)

Andy Towle is an American artist and writer based in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Background

Towle was born in Chicago, Illinois  in 1967. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School (’85). Towle holds two Bachelor of Arts 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.[1] He also received a Wallace Stegner graduate fellowship from 1989 to 1991 from Stanford University,[2] and two writing fellowships, one in poetry and one in fiction, from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.[3]

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 magazine,[4] and editor at large for The Out Traveler,[5] an American gay travel quarterly.

Towle's poetry appeared in The Yale Review (May 1991),[6] Ploughshares (Winter 1992–93),[7] [8] [9] The Paris Review in 2000,[10] and in Poetry Magazine (July 1988,[11] [12] November 1988,[13] February 1991,[14] May 1997,[15] and July 1999).[16]

Towle founded the website Towleroad in 2003[17] and left in 2021[18] [19] [20] 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.[21]

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: WK Rose Fellows - Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising - Vassar College . 2020-02-06 . fellowships.vassar.edu.
  2. Web site: Former Stegner Fellows Creative Writing Program . 2020-02-06 . creativewriting.stanford.edu.
  3. Web site: All Fellows Alphabetical . 2024-07-29 . FINE ARTS WORK CENTER in Provincetown . en-US.
  4. Book: Jim Buzinski. Cyd Zeigler. The Outsports Revolution. 2007. Alyson. 978-1-59350-005-4.
  5. Web site: Andy Towle. The Maynard Institute. 26 June 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160813033047/http://mije.org/features/lgbtqia-2013/andy-towle. 13 August 2016. dead.
  6. Web site: VOLUME LXXIX, NO. 4 (May 1991-Summer 1990). 2015-07-09. The Yale Review. en. 2020-02-06.
  7. Web site: Hard Evidence Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. 2020-02-06.
  8. Web site: Sea Migration Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. 2020-02-06.
  9. Web site: In Consideration: The White Pitcher Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. 2020-02-06.
  10. News: Two Poems. Towle. Andrew. Paris Review. 2000. 2020-02-06. 157. Winter 2000. en. 0031-2037.
  11. Web site: Between Stations by Andrew Towle Nocturne by Andrew Towle. Foundation. Poetry. 2020-02-06. Poetry Magazine. en. 2020-02-06.
  12. Web site: Between Stations by Andrew Towle. Foundation. Poetry. 2020-02-06. Poetry Magazine. en. 2020-02-06.
  13. Web site: The Dead Sea at Dinner by Andrew Towle. Foundation. Poetry. 2020-02-06. Poetry Magazine. en. 2020-02-06.
  14. Web site: Luna Moth by Andrew Towle. Foundation. Poetry. 2020-02-06. Poetry Magazine. en. 2020-02-06.
  15. Web site: Vanished by Andrew Towle. Foundation. Poetry. 2020-02-06. Poetry Magazine. en. 2020-02-06.
  16. Web site: Objects of Desire by Andrew Towle. Foundation. Poetry. 2020-02-06. Poetry Magazine. en. 2020-02-06.
  17. The Advocate. Here Publishing. The Advocate: The National Gay & Lesbian Newsmagazine. 6 June 2006. Here Publishing. 20–. 0001-8996.
  18. Web site: 2021-02-28 . It's Time: A Message From Andy Towle - Towleroad Gay News . 2024-07-29 . en-US.
  19. Web site: Gay Blogger Andy Towle Exits Towleroad . 2024-07-29 . www.advocate.com . en.
  20. Web site: Zeigler . Cyd . Thank you, Andy Towle, for over two decades of amazing work in gay media . 2024-07-29 . OutSports . en.
  21. Web site: Kearns . Pat . 2024-06-19 . Three Provincetown Painters Display Whimsy, Masculinity, and Identity . 2024-07-29 . The Provincetown Independent . en-US.

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