Michael Schmeltzer

Michael Schmeltzer was born in Japan and eventually moved to the United States. He is the author of "Elegy/Elk River," winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, and "Blood Song," his full-length debut from Two Sylvias Press. He earned an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. His honors include numerous Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominations, the Gulf Stream Award for Poetry, and the Blue Earth Review’s Flash Fiction Prize. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in various journals such as Black Warrior Review, Meridian, Rattle, PANK, Mid-American Review, and Natural Bridge, among others.