Michael Byers

Michael Byers is a fiction writer who graduated from Oberlin College in 1991 and whose first short story collection, The Coast of Good Intentions, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1998. He has been recognized with the Sue Kauffman Prize for First Fiction and the Whiting Writer's Award, and his stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan, where he became Director of the Helen Zell Writing Program in 2013. The Missouri Review has published an interview with him and lists him as a contributor.