Michael Maul

Poetry

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Michael resides in Bradenton, Florida, living near Sarasota Bay. His poems have previously appeared in numerous literary publications and anthologies in the U.S. as well as in Ireland, Scotland, England, India and Australia.

In 2018 he authored Dancing Naked in Front of Dogs, a full-length collection of poetry, which later became recommended reading for college students in the former Soviet Union nation of Azerbaijan. It was followed in 2019 by a chapbook, Birds Who Eat French Fries. (More information on it is available by following the “Bookstore” and “Yesterday’s News” navigation buttons at the top of this page.) His most recent collection is Breaking Cover, published in 2022.

He is a graduate of the Ohio University creative writing program, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He later held faculty and administration positions at Ohio University (Athens, Ohio,) The Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio,) and Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri.)

He is a past winner of the Mercantile Library Prize for Fiction, for a short story set in Siesta Key, and his work was selected for inclusion in Intro 4, an anthology of new voices published by The University of Virginia Press. He has also twice been longlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize (Ireland), and in 2019 his poetry was nominated in the “Best on the Net” poetry category.

Michael is also a longtime member of the Ringling Museum Poets writing group, in Sarasota, and the Heron Clan Poets in Raleigh, North Carolina.