Michael James Rizza

Michael James Rizza, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern New Mexico University. He is the author of the novel Cartilage and Skin (2013) and a monograph The Topographical Imagination of Jameson, Baudrillard, and Foucault (2015), as well as academic articles and short stories. He has won various awards for his writing, including a fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. He is currently at work on a novel called Heirs to the Dead Author and a book-length study of postmodern masculinity in the works of DeLillo, Auster, and others.