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 The Guardian, The Delmarva Review, The Collagist, Scarab, The Pisgah Review, Untoward, The Boiler, Crossborder, and Public Books. 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 writing at the University of North Carolina.

SHORT Works

⮕ ”Click, Tally, Reset," The Collagist

⮕ “The Bone Bag,” The Delmarva Review (reprinted in the Talbot Spy)

⮕ "Survivors," Untoward Magazine

⮕ "The Battle Cry of Vernon Stephens," The Boiler (A "sequel" to The Trench Angel)

⮕ "UNC's Silent Sam and Honoring the Confederacy," We're History

⮕ "The Trial and Execution of Ruth Blay," We're History

⮕ "The Orchard Keeper turns 50," We're History

⮕ "The Sinking of the Lusitania," We're History