Bio

Michael Levitin was born in Maine in 1976 and grew up in Sonoma County, Northern California. He studied history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned his masters degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Michael got his start as a journalist in South America covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for the English-language newspaper Bolivian Times. He worked for six years as a freelance correspondent in Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture and climate change. He has also reported from Africa, India, China, the Balkans and the Caribbean. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Financial Times, Newsweek, Time, Los Angeles Times, Forbes and The International Herald Tribune, among other publications.

Michael’s debut novel, Disposable Man, was published in 2019. His latest book, Generation Occupy: Reawakening American Democracy, appeared in 2021. He was co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall Street Journal and Occupy.com, and founding editor of the Prague Literary Review. He is an assistant professor of journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area.