Michael Aaron Casares is an American poet and novelist. His most recent publications include Severance: Poems from a Dystopian America (chapbook; 2020), Poetry from the Edge of Forever (chapbook; 2020), The Vanishing Poet (collection; 2020), A Trick of the Eyes (fiction; 2017) and The Distance to the End (fiction; 2016). He has two previously published collections of poetry, This Reality of Man (2011), and Sad Height (2005). Michael lives in Texas.