Michael Dumanis

Michael Dumanis was born in 1976 in Moscow, and grew up in Buffalo and Rochester, New York. He holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD from the University of Houston. His poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Verse, and many other journals. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the James Michener Foundation, and Yaddo, he has previously served as Poetry Editor of Gulf Coast and the Poetry Curator at Brazos Bookstore. Dumanis co-edited, along with poet Cate Marvin, the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poetry of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). He is the recent recipient of The University of Massachusetts Press’ 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry. His collection, entitled My Soviet Union, will be published in 2007. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska and is currently an assistant professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University.