Sam Michel is an American author. He is married to the writer

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. They live in western

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with their two children.

Publications

He wrote ''Under the Light'', a collection of stories, "Strange Cowboy, Lincoln Dahl Turns Five"' (

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2012) and ''Big Dogs and Flyboys,'' published by

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in 2007. His fiction has appeared in ''

The Massachusetts Review ''The Massachusetts Review'' is a literary quarterly founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It receives financial support from Five Col ...

'', ''The New York Tyrant'', ''

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'' and elsewhere.

Academic

Michel studied writing under

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. He received a MFA degree from the

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

. Michel was Writer-in-Residence at Phillips Academy (1994–1997) and has taught in the creative writing program at the University of Florida and at the

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at the

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(UMass).

External links

Sam Michel in ''The Massachusetts Review''''Big Dogs and Flyboys'' synopsis and blurbs
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