Michael Martone is the author of a dozen books of short fiction and four collections of essays including THE FLATNESS AND OTHER LANDSCAPES, winner of the AWP Prize in Nonfiction and has edited 4 anthologies of nonfiction including TOWNSHIPS, Pieces of the Midwest. MICHAEL MARTONE, a memoir in contributors notes, was published in 2011 and one of its notes appears in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS. He lives in Tuscaloosa, below the Bug Line.
Michael Martone has, after 40 years of teaching, recently retired. He taught fiction and nonfiction writing at Iowa State University, Harvard University, Syracuse University, and, for 24 years, the University of Alabama. He was also on the faculty of the Program for Creative Writing at Warren Wilson College. He has a dozen books of short fiction and four collections of essays including THE FLATNESS AND OTHER LANDSCAPES, winner of the AWP Prize in Nonfiction and has edited 4 anthologies of nonfiction including TOWNSHIPS, Pieces of the Midwest. MICHAEL MARTONE, a memoir in contributors notes, was published in 2011 and one of its notes appears in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS. He lives in Tuscaloosa, below the Bug Line.
