Lou Bahet is Founder, Co-President, and Executive Editor at The Metropolitan Review. She is a four-time Fiction and Non-Fiction Fellow of the Writers’ Institute and a recent Literary Fellow-in-Residence at the Bogliasco Center, situated on the Italian Riviera.

Educated in the San Francisco Bay Area, London, and New York, Lou holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from NYU. She is at work on a memoir about family, homecomings, and object histories, set in a New York apartment building. She also writes poetry and is on Substack. When not putting ink to paper at cafés and pubs, Lou takes refuge in nooks and crannies of New York’s underground arts scene, and loves opening her art deco home for readings, plays, and parties. She lives in Murray Hill with woman’s best friend, Karsten the cat.