Michael Elias

A multidisciplinary writer focusing on queer subject matters. Michael has earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature and the Interdisciplinary Programme of the Humanities from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. They are now living in London after graduating with an M.A. in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. They have published essays, opinion pieces, and media analyses in publications such as Into, Xtra Magazine, Catapult Magazine, Jewish News Detroit, The Niche, Foreword Reviews and elsewhere, as well as poetry in Homologylit, Passengers Journal, and harana poetry. They are currently working on their debut novel and are represented for it by Roma Panganiban.
Poetry
- Knee-scrape Memories (The Rauch Review)
- Of Burning (The Rauch Review)
- // not by any other name // (harana poetry)
- Child (Passengers Journal)
- that’s how every joke ends (Homologylit)
Non Fiction
- An archive of our own: the beauty of sapphic fandoms (LGBTQIA+ Media Watch, nonsense newsletter)
- Visible Invisibility: The Ghostly Nature of Queer-Reading (Catapult Magazine)
- Finding euphoria in acts of self-creation (Xtra Magazine)
- My Body Only Feels Right When It Isn’t My Own (Catapult Magazine)
- A Personal History of Jerusalem’s Only Official Gay Bar (Jewish News Detroit)
Music
- An Ode to ’90s Israeli Rocker Inbal Perlmuter (Alma)
- What PWR BTTM’s Crash-and-Burn Story Can Tell Us Three Years Later (Pass The Mic)
- What I Lost to Streaming as a Music Lover (Gold Flake Paint)
Media
- The queer comfort of ‘The Parent Trap,’ 25 years later (Xtra Magazine)
- Can I Dream of a ‘Queer As Folk’ Reimagining That Keeps Community in Mind? (Into Magazine)
- Queer Monsters: The Importance of Monstrosity in Queer Storytelling (The Wrangler)
- Did Susan Sontag Write ‘Notes On Camp’ Specifically About Eurovision? Who’s to Say (The Niche)
- A Very Israeli Cop Comedy (Jewish News Detroit)
Interviews
- Reviewer Michael Elias Interviews Ben Miller AND Huw Lemmey, Authors of Bad Gays: A Homosexual History (Foreword Reviews)
- ‘Asparagus’ and Other Vegetables: An Interview with Floodwater Angel’s Dillon LaFollette (Pass The Mic)
Book Reviews
- Foreword Reviews Archives
- ‘Damned’ Book Review: A Look into the Duality of Chuck Palahniuk (The Rauch Review)