Michael Dumanis

Michael Dumanis (born January 18, 1976, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is an American poet, professor, and editor of poetry.

Works Dumanis’s first collection of poetry, My Soviet Union (University of Massachusetts Press, 2007), won the 2006 Juniper Prize for Poetry.

Biography Born in the Soviet Union, Dumanis came to the United States with his parents when they were granted political asylum in 1981. From 2005 to 2007, he taught creative writing at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. From 2007 to 2012, was a professor of English at Cleveland State University and served as director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, a literary small press. In 2012, he joined the literature faculty at Bennington College. In 2015, he relaunched the print literary journal Bennington Review, and serves as its editor. He is married to the poet and novelist Monica Ferrell and lives in North Bennington, Vermont.

Education Dumanis holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Houston. the James Michener Foundation, the Wesleyan University Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and a grant from the Ohio Arts Council.