Michael Gerhard Martin is the author of the short story collection, Easiest If I Had A Gun. He holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, and teaches writing at Babson College and for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.
His work has appeared in the Ocean State Review, The Museum of Americana, Lit Review, Bayou Magazine, and The Rust Belt Chic Pittsburgh Anthology; he has been a finalist for the Dzanc Disquiet International Literary Festival short play contest, the Nelligan Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award, a Glimmer Train New Writers contest, and the Hudson Prize. He won the 2013 James Knudsen Prize for fiction from the University of New Orleans, and took Best of Show in Fiction at the 2015 Marblehead Arts Festival.
He lives in Beverly, Massachusetts, with his wife, the poet and memoirist Ellen Goldstein.
Interviews
Making Fire: An Interview with Michael Gerhard Martin (interviewed by Damon McKinney)
Michael Gerhard Martin is the author of the short story collection, Easiest If I Had A Gun (Braddock Avenue Books, 2014). He holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, and teaches writing at Babson College and for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth. His work has appeared in the Ocean State Review, The Museum of Americana, Lit Review, Bayou Magazine, andThe Rust Belt Chic Pittsburgh Anthology; he has been a finalist for the Dzanc Disquiet International Literary Festival short play contest, the Nelligan Prize, the Iowa Short Fiction Award & John Simmons Short Fiction Award, a Glimmer Train New Writers contest, and the Hudson Prize. He won the 2013 James Knudsen Prize for fiction from the University of New Orleans, and took Best of Show in Fiction at the 2015 Marblehead Arts Festival.
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