Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll was born in Memphis, grew up in northern Florida, and lives in New York. He's been a Peace Corps volunteer, a waiter, a janitor, a writer's assistant, and a college instructor. His work has appeared in publications such as Boulevard, Ontario Review, Southwest Review, The Yale Review, Open City, and Animal Shelter. He collaborated with Edmund White on the suspense story "Excavation" for Joyce Carol Oates's New Jersey Noir. His interviews with Ann Beattie and Wells Tower were included in the recently revamped Chattahoochee Review, where his first story was published, and where he is New York Editor.
His first collection, Little Reef and Other Stories, was published in June 2014 by the University of Wisconsin Press, and was the 2015 winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.