Michael Maul

Michael Maul is an award-winning writer. His poems have appeared online and in many literary publications and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad.

He is a past winner of the Mercantile Library Prize for Fiction. His work was also selected for inclusion in Intro 4, an anthology of new voices published by The University of Virginia Press. One of his poems was listed in a year-end recap of top twelve favorite poems of 2018, which was also later nominated to receive a Best of the Net award. Maul also was twice previously longlisted for the annual Fish Poetry Prize (County Cork, Ireland).

Maul is a graduate of the Ohio University creative writing program, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He later held faculty and administrative positions at Ohio University (Athens, Ohio), The Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio), and Saint Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri).

He is the author of three books of poetry. They include Breaking Cover in 2022, Birds Who Eat French Fries in 2020, and Dancing Naked in Front of Dogs in 2018.