About Michael

Michael Keenan Gutierrez is the author of The Swill and The Trench Angel and earned degrees from UCLA, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of New Hampshire. His work has been published in New Letters (forthcoming), The Rumpus, Hippocampus, The Sonora Review, The Guardian, The Delmarva Review, and The Collagist (now The Rupture), among others. His screenplay, The Granite State, was a finalist at the Austin Film Festival and he has received fellowships from The University of Houston and the New York Public Library. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

SHORT Works (Selected)

⮕ “Anchor in a Sea of Time (book review),” Southern Review of Books

⮕“The Body of the Man that Remains,”Contrary

⮕ “The Still,”Cobalt

⮕ “Lies I’ll Tell My Son”‍ ‍805

⮕ “The Conversation,”Pacifica Literary Review

⮕ ”Click, Tally, Reset,” The Rupture (formerly the Collagist)