Biography
Michael Croley is the co editor (with Jack Shuler) of Midland: Reports from Flyover Country and the author Any Other Place: Stories, winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His reporting, stories, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, VQR, The Paris Review Daily, Kenyon Review Online, LitHub, Narrative, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Kentucky Arts Council, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Degree(s)
B.A. Western Kentucky University, M.A. Florida State, M.F.A. University of Memphis
Learning & Teaching
Courses
Intro to Creative Writing, Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction, Studies in the Short Story, Senior Writing Project, Sports Writing
Works
Publications
- Midland: Reports from Flyover Country (co-editor)
- Any Other Place: Stories (author)
- Articles on the business of golf are at Bloomberg
Selected Fiction publications:
- “Larger than the Sea” Catapult Magazine.
- “Satellites”
Other
Grants & Funding
- 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
- Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
Honors & Awards
- 2019 James Still Award, Fellowship of Southern Writers
- 2019, Weatherford Award for Appalachian Writing from Berea College
