Michael's fiction has appeared/will appear in:

Glimmer Train, 'Wackers'

Superstition Review, 'No Peeking'

Narrative Magazine, 'Sweat Angels' 

Glimmer Train, 'No One Comes Up Here By Accident'

Robert Olen Butler Fiction Prize Anthology, 'The Heatseeker' 

Glimmer Train, 'Ghost Pain'

New Letters, 'You'd Be Crazy Not to Love It Here'

Night Train, 'For Those Who Have Also Dared'

Crab Orchard Review, 'Mountain Top Automotive'

Reed Magazine, 'Skin'

Connecticut Review, 'The No More Widow Pity Crusade'

GSU Review, 'Green'

Carve Magazine, 'Think Engineering'

Tartts 2 Fiction Anthology, 'Skin'

Cutthroat, 'Golden Years'

Inkwell, 'Sterile'

Mississippi Review, 'The Heatseeker'

Santa Fe Writers Project, excerpts from his novel

Awards and Recognition

1st Place in the 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award

Semi-Finalist in the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award 

Top 5 Finalist in the 2009 Fred Bonnie Memorial Best First Novel Award 

Semi-Finalist in the 2010 Dana Award for the Novel

Nominee for the 2009 Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award

Semi-Finalist in the 2009 St. Lawrence Press Book Award 

Finalist in the 2009 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction 

Runner-up in the 2009 James Jones First Novel Fellowship 

Top 10 Finalist in the 2009 Narrative Magazine Story Contest 

Finalist in the 2009 Robert Olen Butler Short Fiction Prize

1st Place in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award (Fall)

2nd Place in the 2008 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award (Spring)

Shortlist for the 2008 Robert Olen Butler Fiction Contest

Shortlist for the 2008 Bridport Prize

Finalist in the 2008 Jack Dyer Fiction Contest

Finalist in the 2008 Inkwell Fiction Contest

Winner of the 2007 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest

Finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards

Shortlist in the 2007 and 2008 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

Finalist in the 2006 Miami University Novella Contest

Finalist in the 2006 and 2007 New Letters Award for New Writers

Finalist in the 2006 Tartts First Fiction Contest

Finalist in the 2006 GSU Review Fiction Prize

Winner of the 2005 Fishtrap Fellowship Program

Semi-Finalist in the 2005 Peter Taylor Prize

Semi-Finalist in the 2005 EWU Spokane Prize for Short Fiction

Finalist in the 2005 Mid-American Review Fiction Prize

Finalist in the 2005 H.E. Francis Short Stort Competition

Finalist in the 2003, 2005, and 2006 Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers

Runner-Up in the 2003 Writers-at-Work Fellowship Prize