Steve Amick

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Steve Amick
Born (1964-02-16) February 16, 1964 (age 59)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education George Mason University (BA)
St. Lawrence University (MFA)
Website
steve-amick.com

Steve Amick (born February 16, 1964) is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Career

Steve Amick holds a BA in English-writing from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. [1]

Amick's novels The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile were published by Pantheon Books. [2] His short story appearances include Zoetrope: All-Story, [3] Playboy, [4] [5] The Southern Review, [6] [7] Michigan Quarterly Review, [8] McSweeney’s, [9] in the anthology The Sound of Writing, [10] and on National Public Radio.

Amick teaches at the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA creative writing program. [11]

Works

Novels

Anthologies

Awards

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References

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  3. Amick, Steve. "The Measuring, 1868". Zoetrope: All-Story. American Zoetrope. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  4. Amick, Steve (November 2002). "Swallowing". Playboy. 49 (11). Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  5. Amick, Steve (January 2003). "Joint Custody". Playboy. 50 (7). Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  6. Amick, Steve (2001). "Allie's Girl". The Southern Review (Summer 2001): 256. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  7. Amick, Steve (2015). "Attractive Nuisance". The Southern Review (Autumn 2015): 655. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  8. 1 2 "MQR Announces 2011 Literary Prizes". Michigan Quarterly Review. The Regents of the University of Michigan. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
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  11. "Faculty Biographies - Master of Fine Arts in Writing". Pacific University Oregon. Pacific University. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  12. Amick, Steve (2006). The Lake, the River & the Other Lake. Random House, Inc. ISBN   978-1400079940.
  13. Amick, Steve (2010). Nothing But a Smile. Random House, Inc. ISBN   978-0307390196.
  14. Dawes, Kwame (2016). When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life. Forest Grove, Oregon: Pacific University Press. ISBN   978-0-9884827-4-6.
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