About Andy Towle

Andy Towle was the founder of Towleroad, the popular LGBTQ-focused news website, which he left in 2020 to focus full time on making visual art.

Towle was born in Chicago and grew up in the western suburb of River Forest. He attended Oak Park River Forest High School and went on to attend Vassar College, receiving BAs in Art History and English. After college he was awarded a Stegner Fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University and two writing fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, in poetry (1991-92) and fiction (1995-96).

Prior to founding Towleroad, Towle was the editor-in-chief of Genre magazine and an editor-at-large for Out Traveler.

His poetry has been published in Poetry magazine, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Christopher Street, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and Manoa, among others. He lives and works in Provincetown, Massachusetts.