Posts by Michael Copperman

Michael Copperman teaches writing to at-risk students of color at the University of Oregon, where he received his MFA in fiction. He has a B.A. in English with Creative Writing from Stanford, where he was a Presidential Scholar. His nonfiction has appeared in The Oxford American, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, GOOD, Guernica, The Rumpus, The Literary Review, Stanford Magazine, Post Road, New Madrid, Teachers and Writers, Luna Park, Anderbo, Brevity, Intermat, Eclectica, The Oregonian, The Register-Guard, and The Eugene Weekly. He is the winner of the 2009 Walter Morey Fellowship in Literary Nonfiction from the Oregon Literary Arts Council, as well as the recipient of a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship in Literary Nonfiction from the Oregon Arts Council. His fiction has been published in Copper Nickel, Unsaid, The Arkansas Review, Thirdreader, and 34th Parallel, and his story “Harm,” was a runner-up for the Sean O’Faolain Prize, and appeared in Issue 17 of the Munster Literature Centre’s magazine Southword. His story “It,” is nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize.