Shelly Lowenkopf’s publishing career began in 1956 with a short story in Amazing Stories, followed by a barrage of narratives appearing in pulp and literary journals, including two collections, Love Will Make You Drink and Gamble, Stay Out Late at Night, and the more recent collection, Struts and Frets, about an actor who pays the rent as a costume-wearing spokes-chicken for a chicken-and-waffle restaurant franchise.

He's produced two novels under his own name, has another, Santa Barbara Dreams, forthcoming in early ’26. Under a variety of pseudonyms, he’s published 32 novels, the most recent ones, Westerns, published under the pseudonym Craig Barstow. He’s served as editor for a number of general trade, literary, and scholarly book publishers, was recruited by the then Dial, Dell, Delacorte logo to run its Los Angeles office.

A native Californian (Santa Monica), and product of California schools, he has taught at six venues, the longest his 1974-2008 venture at the graduate writing program, University of Southern California Shelly’ s book reviews have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Publisher’s Weekly, the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Los Angeles Herald- Express, the Virginia City (NV) Territorial-Enterprise, and the Montecito Journal.

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