
Michael Martone’s recent books are The Moon Over Wapakoneta; Brooding; Winesburg, Indiana; Four for a Quarter; Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover; Racing in Place; and Double-wide, his collected early stories. Michael Martone is a memoir in contributor’s notes, and The Blue Guide to Indiana is a fictional travel guide. The Flatness and Other Landscapes won the AWP Award for Nonfiction. With Lex Williford, he edited The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction and The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. Martone is the author of five other books of short fiction including Pensées: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle and Fort Wayne Is Seventh on Hitler's List. He has edited two collections of essays about the Midwest: A Place of Sense and Townships. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Esquire, Story, North American Review, Epoch, The Iowa Review, Story Quarterly, American Short Fiction and other magazines. He has taught at the University of Alabama, Warren Wilson College, Iowa State University, Harvard University, Syracuse University, and the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.