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Made in Michigan Writers
The Made in Michigan Writers Series publishes poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, and essays by Michigan writers with the aim of encouraging the recognition of the state's artistic and cultural heritage throughout Michigan, the Midwest, and the nation.
This series publishes 2-4 new books annually by writers with an established track record (through publication, formal training, professional position, and presentations and readings, for example) that present Michigan's diverse voices on a range of topics of interest to a broad audience of educated nonspecialists and general readers.
Editors: M. L. Liebler, Wayne State University; and Michael Delp, Interlochen Center for the Arts.
The Books
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After-MusicPoems by Conrad Hilberry |
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Trespassing
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Wide Awake in Someone Else's DreamPoems by M. L. Liebler |
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The Women Were Leaving the MenStories by Andy Mozina |
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Voices of the Lost and FoundStories by Dorene O'Brien |
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Broken SymmetryBy Jack Ridl |
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Blue-Tail FlyBy Vievee Francis |
The Authors
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Conrad HilberryConrad Hilberry is emeritus professor of English at Kalamazoo College and author of several books of poetry, including The Fingernail of Luck, Player Piano, and Sorting the Smoke, and co-editor of |
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Janet KauffmanJanet Kauffman is professor of English at Eastern Michigan University. She is the author of three books of short stories, Characters on the Loose, Obscene Gestures for Women, and Places in the World a Woman Could Walk, which won the Rosenthal Award from the Academy–Institute of Arts and Letters; three novels in the trilogy Flesh Made Word: Collaborators, The Body in Four Parts, and Rot; and four collections of poems, including The Weather Book, which was an AWP Award Series Selection, and Five on Fiction. |
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M. L. LieblerM. L. Liebler is on the faculty of the department of English at Wayne State University and is the author of several books of poetry, including The Moon a Box, Written in Rain: New and Selected Poems, 1985–2000, and Stripping the Adult Century Bare: New and Selected Writings. He is the director of Springfed Arts: Metro Detroit Writers Literary Arts Organization. |
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Andy MozinaAndy Mozina is associate professor of English at Kalamazoo College and author of Joseph Conrad and the Art of Sacrifice. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines including Tin House, the Massachusetts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fence, West Branch, Beloit Fiction Journal, and the Florida Review. His short fiction collection The Women Were Leaving the Men was a finalist for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and his short story bearing the same title received special mention in The Pushcart Prize 2006 edition and was named a distinguished story in The Best American Short Stories 2005. |
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Dorene O'BrienDorene O’Brien is a fiction writer and a teacher of creative writing at the College for Creative Studies and Wayne State University in Detroit. She has won numerous awards for her fiction, including the Bridport Prize for her short story “#12 Dagwood on Rye,” Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for “Riding the Hubcap,” and the New Millennium Writings Fiction Award for “Ovenbirds.” In 2004 she was also awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Jack RidlJack Ridl is emeritus professor of English at Hope College, Holland, Michigan. His poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and poetry journals. Broken Symmetry is his third volume of poetry. Ridl has also published three chapbooks, two college literary textbooks, two literary anthologies, and is recipient of several awards for his teaching of young poets. |
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Vievee FrancisVievee Francis is a well-known poet in the Detroit area whose poems have appeared in numerous journals. This is her first full-length book of poetry. |