Steve Amick
American novelist and short story writer
Steve Amick (born February 16, 1964) is an American novelist and short story writer.
Career
Steve Amick holds a BA in English-writing from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University .[1]
Amick's novels The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile were published by Pantheon Books.[2] His short story appearances include Zoetrope: All-Story, [3] Playboy, [4] [5] The Southern Review ,[6] [7] Michigan Quarterly Review ,[8] McSweeney’s, [9] in the anthology The Sound of Writing, [10] and on National Public Radio .
Amick teaches at the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA creative writing program.[11]
Works
Novels
The Lake, the River & the Other Lake (2005)[12]
Nothing But a Smile (2009)[13]
Anthologies
Kwame Dawes, ed. When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life. Pacific University Press. (2016)[14]
Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke, eds. Ghost Writers: Contemporary Ghost Stories from Michigan. Wayne State University Press. (2011)[15]
Robert Shapard and James Thomas, eds. New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond. W. W. Norton & Company. (2007)[16]
Kathryn Harrison and Jeff Kass, eds. Unsquared: Ann Arbor’s Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems. 826michigan. (2006)[17]
Alan Cheuse, ed. The Sound of Writing. Anchor/Doubleday. (1991)[18]
Awards
Michigan Notable Book Award (2006 & 2010)[19] [20]
Washington Post Book of the Year (2005)
Michigan Quarterly Review's Lawrence Prize (2011)[8]
Dan Rudy Prize, George Mason University (1989)[21]
References
^ "Amick, Steve 1964--" . HighBeam Research . Gale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ "Steve Amick" . Penguin Random House . Penguin Random House. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Amick, Steve. "The Measuring, 1868" . Zoetrope: All-Story . American Zoetrope. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Amick, Steve (November 2002). "Swallowing" . Playboy . 49 (11). Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Amick, Steve (January 2003). "Joint Custody" . Playboy . 50 (7). Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Amick, Steve (2001). "Allie's Girl" . The Southern Review (Summer 2001): 256. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Amick, Steve (2015). "Attractive Nuisance" . The Southern Review (Autumn 2015): 655. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ a b "MQR Announces 2011 Literary Prizes" . Michigan Quarterly Review . The Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Amick, Steve (1999). "Santa & Son" . McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (3). Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Cheuse, Alan (October 1, 1991). The Sound of Writing . Anchor, 1st Anchor Books Ed. ISBN 978-0385416702 .
^ "Faculty Biographies - Master of Fine Arts in Writing" . Pacific University Oregon . Pacific University. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ Amick, Steve (2006). The Lake, the River & the Other Lake . Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-1400079940 .
^ Amick, Steve (2010). Nothing But a Smile . Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0307390196 .
^ Dawes, Kwame (2016). When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life . Forest Grove, Oregon: Pacific University Press. ISBN 978-0-9884827-4-6 .
^ Taylor, Keith; Kasischke, Laura (September 2011). Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, Contemporary Michigan Literature . Detroit, Michigan: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814334744 .
^ Shapard, Robert; Thomas, James (January 17, 2007). New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond . New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393328011 .
^ Harrison, Kathryn; Kass, Jeff (2006). Unsquared: Ann Arbor’s Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems . Ann Arbor, MI: 826michigan. ISBN 978-0977928927 .
^ Cheuse, Alan (October 1, 1991). The Sound of Writing . Anchor, 1st Anchor Books Ed. ISBN 978-0385416702 .
^ "2006 Michigan Notable Books" . Library of Michigan . State of Michigan. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ "2010 Michigan Notable Books" . Library of Michigan . State of Michigan. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
^ "Steve Amick 1964--" . HighBeamResearch . Gale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2017 .
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