Michael Pritchett

Michael Pritchett is the author of the 2020 novella Tania the Revolutionary, now available on Kindle/Amazon, The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis (Unbridled Books, 2007) and The Venus Tree, winner of an Iowa Short Fiction Award (the John Simmons Short Fiction Award) in 1988 and published by the University of Iowa Press. He is the winner of the 2000 Dana Award for a novel-in-progress for his novel, The Final Effort of the Archer. The title story from his collection appeared in the anthology The Iowa Award: The Best Stories from 20 Years, University of Iowa Press, 1990. He received Special Mention in the 2019 Pushcart anthology for his Pushcart-nominated novel excerpt "A Sort of Woman," New Letters magazine. His stories have recently appeared in Your Impossible Voice, Slippery Elm, ArLiJo, Solstice and New Letters, among others. He teaches in the acclaimed MFA in Creative Writing and Media Arts Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.