Steve Amick (born February 16, 1964) is an American

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and

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writer.

Career

Steve Amick holds a BA in English-writing from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in creative writing from

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

. Amick's novels ''The Lake, the River & the Other Lake'' and ''Nothing But a Smile'' were published by Pantheon Books. His short story appearances include ''Zoetrope: All-Story,'' ''Playboy,'' '' The Southern Review,'' ''

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,'' ''McSweeney’s,'' in the anthology ''The Sound of Writing,'' and on

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. Amick teaches at the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA creative writing program.

Works

Novels

*''The Lake, the River & the Other Lake'' (2005) *''Nothing But a Smile'' (2009)

Anthologies

*Kwame Dawes, ed. ''When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life.'' Pacific University Press. (2016) *Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke, eds. ''Ghost Writers: Contemporary Ghost Stories from Michigan.'' Wayne State University Press. (2011) *Robert Shapard and James Thomas, eds. ''New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond.'' W. W. Norton & Company. (2007) *Kathryn Harrison and Jeff Kass, eds. ''Unsquared: Ann Arbor’s Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems.'' 826michigan. (2006) *Alan Cheuse, ed. ''The Sound of Writing.'' Anchor/Doubleday. (1991)

Awards

*Michigan Notable Book Award (2006 & 2010) *

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Book of the Year (2005) *Michigan Quarterly Review's Lawrence Prize (2011) *Dan Rudy Prize, George Mason University (1989)

References

External links

Official website"The Peninsula Personality: An interview with Steve Amick," ''Michigan Radio''"Interview: Nerdy Questions for Author Steve Amick--Part One," ''Pop Culture Nerd''
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