Michael Levitin began working as a journalist in Bolivia, where he covered violent water protests in 2000 for the La Paz English-language newspaper Bolivian Times. He became the paper’s editor and traveled widely in South America before returning to the U.S. to attend the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, earning his Masters degree in 2002.

Michael was founding editor of The Prague Literary Review in 2003. He later reported for the Associated Press in Puerto Rico and covered terrorism and immigration issues as a freelance journalist in Barcelona. Since 2005 he has made his home in Berlin, where he writes about culture, politics, environment and everything in between.

Michael’s reporting has taken him to the Balkans, China, East Africa and most recently, India. His publications include Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, Forbes, The Walrus, Slate, Grist, The Times Literary Review, Forward and The International Herald Tribune. He currently works as a  correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and is a regular guest on Deutsche Welle’s TV news show Quadriga.

Michael was born in 1976 in Maine and grew up on two acres in the wine and redwood region of northern California. He studied European history and graduated with high honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is married to the Catalan painter Irene Pascual.