Michael Griffith

Michael Griffith’s books of fiction are Spikes (2001), Bibliophilia (2003), and Trophy (2011). His nonfiction book is The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell (2021). Griffith’s fiction and essays have appeared in many periodicals, and he’s been the recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and teaches in the Sewanee School of Letters as well. From 2004 to 2020 he edited Yellow Shoe Fiction, an original-fiction series from LSU Press.

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