Alison Lowenstein is the author of City Weekends: The Greatest Escapes and Getaways in and Around NYC, City Kid New York: The Ultimate Guide for NYC Parents ages 4-12, and City Baby Brooklyn.  She edited Gothamist Getaways and is a contributor at Tripsavvy and has written for The Washington Post, National Geographic Traveler, Departures, American Way, Arrive, Porthole, NY Daily News, Newsday, Lilith, Wild Blue Yonder, Time Out New York, Time Out New York Kids, Huffington Post, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Modern Loss, Kveller, The Hairpin, The Belladonna Comedy, Babble, OffMetro, AOLTravel, TravelandLesiure.com, Marieclaire.com, Parenting.com, New York Times’s City Room blog, and for many other publications and websites.

In addition, she’s written stories for 5-Minute Marvel Stories, 5-Minute Spider-Man Storybook, The Avengers Storybook collections, as well as paperbacks, film novelizations, and TV tie-ins for Disney’s Marvel Books. Using a pen name she currently writes a middle grade fiction series, which spent numerous months on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list. Her short stories appeared in Fiction, The Brooklyn Rail, Portland Review, The Melic Review, Wordsmitten, and other literary journals. Alison leads creative writing workshops for the New York Writers Coalition and is also an adjunct lecturer.

Her plays have been performed in New York and Los Angeles, including productions and readings at the Abingdon Theatre’s Benefit Challenge, LIC One Act Festival, San Diego Center for Jewish Culture Short Play Festival, Ocean County College’s Comic Shorts, Hudson Warehouse Theater’s Monologue Festival, Gi60, Gi60 #NextGen, Teatro Moz, NY Winterfest, Rising Sun Performance Company, New Perspectives Theatre Company, The Apron Strings Project, New Wave Theater Collective, and Playlight Theatre Company’s Spotlight Series. Alison was in the New Perspectives Theatre Company’s Women’s Work 2018 Short Play Lab and the 2019 Full-Length Women’s Work Play Lab. In June 2018, she took part in a weeklong residency on Governors Island where she workshopped a full-length play through the Rising Sun Performance Company’s Laboratorium. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

You can email her here.