Michael Newirth was educated at the University of Chicago, the University of Florida, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. He was fiction editor of the now-defunct Bridge Magazine from 2002 to 2006. His writing received a Henfield-Transatlantic Review award and appears in numerous publications and anthologies, including In These Times, Chicago Reader, Open City, The Baffler, Other Voices, Another Chicago Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, A Fine Excess: Literature at Play, and Pushcart Prize XXII. He currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.