Lou Bahet is Executive Editor at The Metropolitan Review, a books and culture magazine she co-founded with Ross Barkan and David Roberts in 2025. 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.