BIO

Michael Friedman is the author of six collections of poetry, including the book of prose poems Species (The Figures, 2000), and a novel, Martian Dawn (Turtle Point Press, fall 2006). Since 1986 he has edited the influential literary journal Shiny, which he co-founded. His poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner, 2003), and in many journals, including American Poetry Review and New American Writing. Friedman grew up in Manhattan and was educated at Columbia, Yale and Duke. He lives in Denver and has taught in the MFA writing program at Naropa University in Boulder.