Michael Broek is the author of Refuge/es, winner of the Kinereth Gensler Award for poetry, from Alice James Books, and two chapbooks, The Logic of Yoo, from Beloit Poetry Journal, which has been adapted to a staged reading, and The Amputation Artist, from ELJ Publications. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in places such as The American Poetry Review, The Literary Review, Drunken Boat, Literary Imagination, Blackbird, Fourteen Hills, The European Journal of American Studies, American Literature Compass, The Journal of American Studies, and others. He has received fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and the Marble House Project, a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a grant from the New Jersey State Arts Council in Poetry. He is the Managing Editor of Barrow Street Journal and formerly edited the online journal Tran(s)tudies.
As a freelancer, he has edited novels for published authors and scholarly articles and monographs for academics in the areas of literature, the law, and education, and he has edited and indexed anthologies for university publishers, such as Trinity University Press, Syracuse University Press, and the University of Georgia Press. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Goddard College and a PhD in American Literature from Essex University, UK. He lives and teaches in New Jersey.
As a freelancer, he has edited novels for published authors and scholarly articles and monographs for academics in the areas of literature, the law, and education, and he has edited and indexed anthologies for university publishers, such as Trinity University Press, Syracuse University Press, and the University of Georgia Press. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Goddard College and a PhD in American Literature from Essex University, UK. He lives and teaches in New Jersey.
