Mike Alberti was born and raised in Albuquerque. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Minnesota.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, One Story, and elsewhere. His stories have won the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize from Hunger Mountain, and the Sweet Corn Prize from Flyway.
Mike has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the James Merrill House, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the MacDowell Colony.
He lives in Minneapolis, where he serves as the Managing Director for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.
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