Michael Davis

Michael Davis is a professional writer whose work has appeared in Descant, The San Joaquin Review, The Jabberwock Review, The Black Mountain Review, Eclipse, Cottonwood, The Mid-American Review, Full Circle, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Georgia Review, Storyglossia, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Willow Springs and, most recently, in The Normal School.

He was a William Saroyan Fellow and former fiction editor of the journal CutBank. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on three separate occasions by The Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry, and Storyglossia. His story "Gravity" won the 2008 George Garrett fiction award given out by Eastern Washington University. "The Man in Africa" was voted one of the "Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2007" and was subsequently reviewed by Xujun Eberlein for Five Star Literary Stories.

His professional qualifications include a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing, a Master of Information Sciences in information technology management, an expert TESOL certification, and an ABA paralegal certification. He is also a certified Reiki master in Usui, Tibetan, and Chikara Reiki Do systems. Michael has taught writing at universities in California, Missouri, Montana, Michigan and online for the Gotham Writers' Workshop. He is currently finishing a PhD in English and writing a novel.

Michael's book of short stories, Gravity, will be available in April 2009 from Carnegie Mellon University Press.