Michael Henry

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Michael J. Henry, MFA currently serves as Executive Director of Lighthouse, where he also teaches poetry and memoir and essay workshops. A former recipient of a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship and a PlatteForum Fellowship, his work has appeared in such places as Copper Nickel, Threepenny Review, 5280 Magazine, Ekphrasis, Hippocampus, Many Mountains Moving, Pleiades, Red Rock Review, Rio Grande Review, Georgetown Review, and Bloomsbury Review. He's collaborated with Garrett Ammon of Wonderbound to create three narrative poetry performances, When the Power Goes Out, Intersection, and Gone West.

Michael grew up in Buffalo, New York, received a BA in English from University of Rochester and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. In 1997, he co-founded Lighthouse with Andrea Dupree, who serves as program director.

He's published two full-length collections of poetry, No Stranger Than My Own and Active Gods (Conundrum/Bower House), and a book of nonfiction, Mountain Biking the Colorado Trail (Bower House). In 2017, he was awarded a Livingston Fellowship from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation.

Michael Henry's Published Work

Michael Henry's Articles

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Tobias Wolff

September 05, 2007

Sure, there are the amazing short stories--"Bullet in the Brain" being my

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What is Exotic?

July 02, 2007

What is exotic?

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Lit Fest Kickoff

June 10, 2007

featured the folk vocal stylings of our own literary goddess Jessica Slater

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Should we be pros, all of us?

May 01, 2007

If you've ever wondered whether reading too long at an awards dinner can cost you a National Book Critics Circle Awar

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Fate, Luck and the Rules of Writing

February 22, 2007

When Amy Tan took spoke at last week as part of the Post-News Pen & Podium series, she was armed with the CliffNo

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My New Favorite Quote

January 18, 2007

This from Walter Kirn's N