Lev AC Rosen was born on April 13th, and while he enjoys telling everyone it was a Friday, it was in fact, a Monday. He grew up on the lower west side of Manhattan, across the street from a building in which they made pasta sauce, so his memories of early mornings are always tinged with the smell of tomatoes.

He attended Oberlin College, in Ohio (Majors in Creative Writing and English), after which he ran as quickly as possible back to Manhattan, got his MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Sarah Lawrence College, and began his attempt at happily ever after, very far downtown, where the air smells like the ocean (which is much preferable to warm tomatoes).

During his short lifetime, Lev has studied with David Young, David Walker, David Hollander, and many people not named David including Mary LaChapelle, Ernesto Mestre-Reed, Paul Lisicky, Whitney Otto, Arnost Lustig, Brian Morton, Joan Silber, and his mentor who first told him to major in creative writing (and very possibly regrets it), Dan Chaon.

Lev’s short story, Painting was the inaugural piece for the ‘New Voices’ section of the renowned Esopus magazine. He was also the fiction editor for Lostwriters.net on which he had a weekly column in which he ranted and made very little sense.  He has finished several novels, his first being Chain-Link Fence, a novel about seven people dealing isolation, connection, and opera within New York City.  His Paganism greatly influenced this and other works, infusing the world with genuine magic, from prophetic dreams and mischievous fairies to exploding light-bulbs. 

His most recent novel is the Steampunk sensation novel-come- comedy, All Men of Genius, which is again infused with magic, but this time, it’s all mad science, killer automata and talking rabbits.  Inspired by both Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, All Men of Genius follows Violet Adams as she disguises herself as her twin brother to gain entry to Victorian London’s most prestigious scientific academy, and once there, encounters blackmail, mystery, and love, in the form of the young duke/headmaster, who has a secret past of his own. 

All his books are quite brilliant, according to his mother. 

Lev is currently represented in his literary works by Joy Tutela, of the David Black Literary Agency, who has legs that go all the way to the floor.