WriterMichael Steinberg

Michael Steinberg is founding editor of the literary journal, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. His most recent books include Still Pitching, winner of the 2003 Foreword Magazine /Independent Press Memoir of the Year; Peninsula: Essays and Memoirs From Michigan (2001); The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction (currently in its fifth edition); and Those Who Do, Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching (1997)--the latter two with Robert Root Jr. His shorter works have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies. In addition, Steinberg has been a guest writer at many colleges and universities, as well as at several national and international writers’ conferences--including the Prague Summer Program, the Paris Writers’ Conference, The Kachemak Bay/Alaska Writers’ Conference, and the Geneva Writers’ Conference, among others. He's writer-in-residence at the Solstice/Pine Manor College low-residency MFA program in Boston. He and his wife Carole, a visual artist, divide their time between Lansing and Northport, Michigan.