Michael Copperman has a B.A. in English from Stanford University, where he graduated summa cum laude and was a Presidential Scholar. He teaches writing to low-income, at-risk students of color at the University of Oregon, where he received his MFA in Fiction. His nonfiction has appeared in The Oxford American, Creative Nonfiction, GOOD, Guernica, The Rumpus, Copper Nickel, Teachers and Writers, Stanford Magazine, New Madrid, Post Road, Anderbo, Eclectica, Brevity, The Oregonian, The Register-Guard, and The Eugene Weekly, and is forthcoming from Gulf Coast and The Literary Review. He is the recipient of the Walter Morey Fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission, and was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Prize . His fiction has been published in the Munster Literature Centre's journal Southword (after being shortlisted for the 2009 Sean O'Faolain Prize), Unsaid, Copper Nickel, The Arkansas Review, and 34th Parallel. From 2002-04 he taught fourth grade in the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta, and he is currently seeking representation for his novel "Gone," concerning that experience.
Please contact me: michael@michaelcopperman.com