Michael Downs

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer

Baltimore, MD
Maryland US
Email: 
mdowns@michael-downs.net
Website: 
michael-downs.net

Author's Bio

Michael Downs, a Hartford native, is the author of The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, his debut novel from Acre Books. Earlier works include The Greatest Show: Stories, inspired by the true story of the Hartford, Conn., circus fire, and House of Good Hope: A Promise for a Broken City, named a finalist in memoir for the Connecticut Book Award. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a professor of English at Towson University.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:
House of Good Hope (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
Journals:
Michigan Quarterly Review
,
New Letters
,
River Teeth
,
Sport Literate

Fiction

Books:
The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist (Acre Books, 2016)
,
The Greatest Show: Stories (Louisiana State University Press, 2012)
Journals:
Alaska Quarterly Review
,
Five Points
,
Georgia Review
,
Gettysburg Review
,
Missouri Review
,
Willow Springs
,
Witness
Prizes won: 

NEA literary fellowship in fiction, River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship, Maryland State Arts Council grant, Rubys Award

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Hartford
Raised in: 
Tucson, AZ
Arizona
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Last update: Apr 21, 2018