Michael Martone

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Michael Martone is currently a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama. He is the author of five books of short fiction including Seeing Eye published in September of 1995 by Zoland Books as well as Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle (Broad Ripple Press, 1994), Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List (Indiana University Press, 1990), Safety Patrol (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), and Alive and Dead in Indiana (Alfred A. Knopf, 1984). He has edited two collections of essays about the Midwest: A Place of Sense: Essays in Search of the Midwest and Townships: Pieces of the Midwest (University of Iowa Press, 1988 and 1992). He edits Story County Books, and his newest book, The Flatness and Other Landscapes (University of Georgia Press, 2000), a collection of his own essays about the Midwest, won the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1998.

For more on Michael Martone, see

• His Featured Writer page on Web del Sol, which includes selections from his various works
• Bio and excerpts at Fiction Collective 2
• "Contributor's Note" by Michael Martone at Pindeldyboz
• "The Thermostat" at Nerve.com

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