Martin Rowe

I was born in Aldershot, England and educated at Oxford University, where I was awarded a scholarship and took a first class honors degree in English Literature and Language at Mansfield College. I completed a master’s degree in Religious Studies at New York University. In1994, I founded the monthly magazine Satya, with Beth Gould, and was its editor for five and a half years. In 1999, I published The Way of Compassion: Vegetarianism, Environmentalism, Animal Advocacy, and Social Justice, which collected some of the best articles and interviews on vegetarianism, environmentalism, animal advocacy, and social justice, gathered from the first fifty issues of Satya.

In 1999, I co-founded Lantern Books, a publisher of books on the same issues that Satya had covered. Since then, I’ve helped bring to press nearly two hundred titles, including works by Ven. Yifa, Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, Fr. Thomas Keating, Ginny Jordan, Carol J. Adams, and many others. In addition to publishing works through Lantern, I’ve been professionally involved in the creation of a number of titles, including: Unbowed: An Autobiography (Knopf, 2006), The Challenge for Africa (Pantheon, 2008), Replenishing the Earth (Doubleday, 2010), and The Green Belt Movement—all by Professor Wangari Maathai—and Farm Sanctuary by Gene Baur (Touchstone, 2008). I also wrote the introduction to Rynn Berry’s monograph Hitler: Neither Vegetarian nor Animal Lover (Pythagorean, 2004).

In 2003, I published my novel Nicaea: A Book of Correspondences with Lindisfarne Books. I’m also the author of a comic novel, Bertie Wooster and the Lizard King, which is an appreciation of the work of P. G. Wodehouse. However, because the U.S. branch of Wodehouse’s literary estate has deemed that it breaches copyright, it’s not available for anyone to read. I’m the co-author (with Evander Lomke) of Right Off the Bat: Baseball, Cricket, Literature, and Life, published by Paul Dry Books of Philadelphia in 2011. I’ve also written articles and reviews for Publishers Weekly, Parabola magazine, The Boston Book Review, and The Animals’ Agenda. I’ve had three of my plays performed in England and short stories published in Gloucester Green, The Everyman Review, The Religious Observer, and The Adobe Anthology. You can read my book reviews here. In recent years, I’ve taken up long-distance running, as well as rekindled my love of cricket. I live in Brooklyn, New York, with my partner Mia MacDonald, founder of the international public policy “action” tank Brighter Green. You can follow me on Facebook. My email address is martin [at] lanternbooks [dot] com.