About
Michael Lee Vikre is a Norwegian-American writer, educator, abolitionist and anarchist. Author of The Only Worlds We Know (Button Poetry, 2019), he has received grants and scholarships from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the LOFT Literary Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Winner of the Scotti Merrill Award for poetry from the Key West Literary Seminar and the Arthur Lynn Andrews Award for Fiction from Cornell University, Michael’s writing has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Copper Nickel, and Best New Poets 2018 among others. He holds an Ed.M in Arts Education from Harvard University and an MFA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Cornell University. Currently, he coordinators a BA program, in which he also teaches, in Individualized and Interdisciplinary Studies for incarcerated students in Minnesota. He lives in North Minneapolis.
Current Projects
Michael’s research focuses on the intersections of colonialism, race formation and industrialized forms of violence across the Long 19th Century. Michael is currently working on a hybrid work of poetry, essays and literary/arts criticism which maps a constellation of material and cultural forms of violence across the Atlantic world between the guillotine and the Mark I tank at the Battle of the Somme. Additionally, he is working on a book of poems examining the effects of industrial war on the natural world and a book of short stories based on his time as farm hand in Hedmark Norway.
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