Michael Byers
Assistant Professor
PROFILE:
MICHAEL BYERS is a former Stegner Fellow, holds an MFA from the University of Michigan (1996) and is the author of two books, The Coast of Good Intentions, a book of stories, and Long for This World, a novel. A new novel is scheduled for publication in 2010. The Coast of Good Intentions won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, garnered a Whiting Writer's Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book, among other citations. Long for This World was also a New York Times Notable Book, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award, won the Virginia Commonwealth University First Novel Award, and won the annual prize for fiction from Friends of American Writers. His stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards.
A sample from Michael Byers work online:
Two short stories:
"Silver Maple" (from The Seattle Weekly )
"Darver's Big Idea" (from five chapters.com) http://www.fivechapters.com/2009/darvers-big-idea/
Publications:
The Coast of Good Intentions (Houghton Mifflin, 1998); Long For This World (Houghton Mifflin, 2003); Percival's Planet (Henry Holt, forthcoming 2010).
Reasearch Interests:
Department Areas of Study: American: Twentieth-Century American; British: Twentieth-Century British; Writing of Fiction
Primary: Literary Fiction, the American Short Story
Secondary: Classic radio drama, astronomy.
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