Lou Bahet is Founder and Executive Editor at The Metropolitan Review. She is a three-time Fiction and Non-Fiction Fellow of the Writers’ Institute and an incoming Literary Fellow-in-Residence at the Bogliasco Center Summer Session, situated near Genoa 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, where she penned her thesis on existential risk. She is at work on a novel, writes poetry, and is on Substack at Falcon Lair. 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 the like. She lives in Murray Hill with woman’s best friend, Karsten the cat.