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Michael Martone

Michael Martone

Michael Martone

Michael Martone has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University. He is currently teaching at the University of Alabama, where he has directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Double-wide: Collected Fiction is his eighth book of stories. Racing in Place, his third book of nonfiction, will be published in 2008. He has edited six other volumes of prose including the Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction with Lex Williford. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Excerpt:
Introduction from The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Jul 12, 2009
Excerpt:
Foreward from The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Feb 05, 2009
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction will be released on December 11, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Dec 11, 2007
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 11, 2007
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction will be released on December 11, 2007 in eBook
Dec 11, 2007
Dec 11, 2007
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction will be released on December 11, 2007 in
Dec 11, 2007
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction will be released on December 11, 2007 in
Dec 11, 2007
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction will be released on December 04, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Dec 04, 2007
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 04, 2007
Dec 04, 2007
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction will be released on December 04, 2007 in
Dec 04, 2007
Dec 04, 2007
Excerpt:
Table of Contents from Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Prior to Dec 19, 2008

Authors on the Web

Tuscaloosa News, April 15, 2012
...appeared in everything from the prestigious Oxford American (?Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Moon Winx,? by Michael Martone) to the bit more obscure Big Lucks magazine, the fourth issue of which contained Andrew Beck Grace?s ?The Storm, In Fragments,?...
Individual.com, February 15, 2012
...of community-oriented workshops, all leading up to a reading that evening by Hemley and his fellow horseman: writers Michael Martone, Melissa Pritchard, and Pinckney Benedict. Across morning and afternoon sessions, these four guests of the Mission Creek...
Columbia Missourian, October 21, 2011
...COLUMBIA — MU's Creative Writing Program will host award-winning author Michael Martone as a guest speaker Thursday and Friday as a part of their year-long reading series. Martone is the second out of nine guest speakers to visit this academic year...
Berkshire Eagle, August 7, 2011
...life and passions. It is a blunt, honest account without an inkling of self-pity. In "Against the Beloved," Michael Martone exalts and defends the man he considers to be his writing mentor from afar, Kurt Vonnegut. As a selection for a literary journal,...
Media Newswire, August 1, 2011
...will read from his novel, Nazareth, North Dakota, a modern retelling of the story of the young Messiah. Michael Martone calls it "a mash-up of modernized mythologies with sheer mythic modernity." Zeppetello will read from his novel, Daring to Eat a...
PRLog, July 23, 2011
...Justin Dobbs, Trevor Dodge, Zach Dodson, Brian Evenson, Scott Garson, Carol Guess, Elizabeth Hildreth, John Madera, Ryan Manning, Michael Martone, Kelcey Parker, Ted Pelton, Davis Schneiderman, Michael Stewart, and J. A. Tyler. and its parent company...
PR-USA.net, July 17, 2011
...Justin Dobbs, Trevor Dodge, Zach Dodson, Brian Evenson, Scott Garson, Carol Guess, Elizabeth Hildreth, John Madera, Ryan Manning, Michael Martone, Kelcey Parker, Ted Pelton, Davis Schneiderman, Michael Stewart, and J. A. Tyler. Jaded Ibis Press and its...
Individual.com, February 15, 2012
...of community-oriented workshops, all leading up to a reading that evening by Hemley and his fellow horseman: writers Michael Martone, Melissa Pritchard, and Pinckney Benedict. Across morning and afternoon sessions, these four guests of the Mission Creek...
Iowa City Patch, February 8, 2012
...of community-oriented workshops, all leading up to a reading that evening by Hemley and his fellow horseman: writers Michael Martone, Melissa Pritchard, and Pinckney Benedict. Across morning and afternoon sessions, these four guests of the Mission Creek...
CBS Detroit, February 6, 2012
...accepted through Thursday, Feb. 9. The Courageous Persuaders program was started in 2000 by Oakland County District Judge Michael Martone and John Barczyk, a local advertising executive.  In 2007, the DADA became the primary sponsor through its...
Now Public, February 3, 2012
...people who are unable to get a mortgage without a steady job. * Monti's Undersecretary of Labor, Michael Martone, has recently stated that anyone who doesn't have a university degree by age 28 is "a dork." Martone, 38, became a university professor at 29...
The Rumpus.net, October 3, 2011
...When I was a kid, I loved participating in my school’s science fair each year even though I did not necessarily have any aptitude for the scientific. My experiments were never that inspiring but I certainly thought they were—volcanoes erupting with...
Three Percent - Article, October 3, 2011
...books like Nicholson Baker’s U&I to Barthes’ S/Z to the work of Geoff Dyer, William H. Gass, Michael Martone, DH Lawrence, and plenty more, the long essay has a pretty awesome reputation as the place critics go when they’re ready to write in a more...
Fiction Writers Review, September 12, 2011
...on to publish books on writing. They include Charles Baxter, Marianne Boruch, Robert Boswell, Carl Dennis, Stephen Dobyns, Michael Martone, Heather McHugh, Michael Ryan, Joan Silber, Debra Spark, Sarah Stone, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Alan Williamson and Dean...