Michael Poore

Michael Poore (born 1967 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American novelist, the author of three novels: Up Jumps the Devil, Reincarnation Blues (2017) andTwo Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House (2019). His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Southern Review, Agni, Fiction, and Asimov’s. Poore lives in Highland, Indiana, with his wife, poet and activist Janine Harrison, and their daughter, Jianna.

List of works Novels

Up Jumps the Devil (2012) Reincarnation Blues (2017) Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House (2019)

Short stories TitlePublicationNotesBlue EarthCarolina Quarterly (Spring 2000)as Arlo RamirezThe Fall of Enrico MontoyaBaltimore Review (Winter 2000)reprinted in Red Wheelbarrow (Spring 2001)The Whale in the Moon Haydens Ferry Review 29 (Fall/Winter 2001-2002)reprinted in Second Writes inaugural issueRomancesBlack Warrior Web (Winter 2002)Six Chinese Cooks Rose into the Air The Southern Review (Summer 2003)Chief Next Lightning's Phantom HandStoryQuarterly 39 (2004)The Wooden MotherTalebones 30 (Summer 2005)Honorable Mention: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006The Wind in His Cotton Mountain ParadiseThe Greensboro Review (Fall 2005) History of the Ghosts of Judy, TennesseeStoryQuarterly 41 (2005)honorable mention: 2006 SLF Fountain Award — for speculative fiction short storyThe Fires of KryptonFiction 54 (2008)How to Raise a Positive-Thinking BabyFiction (2008)Three Fables About EntropyPacific Review (2008)Crazy Horse in RetirementThe MacGuffin (2008)Bury Me Under the Drugstore, MamaNorthwest Review Vol. 46, Issue 2 (May 2008)The Paint GiantNorth Dakota Quarterly (Winter 2008)Blood DauberAsimov’s Science Fiction (October/November 2009)written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual CollectionThe BeekeeperGlimmer Train Stories 74 (2010)The Street of the House of the sunThe Pinch (2011)reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012The Rain That Time/That Thing That HappenedAGNI 81 (2015)The Fool KillerNew Limestone Review (2017)Read onlineWhat The Fire God Said To The BeastMy Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed (2019)Michael described it as "an excerpted chapter from the 'Moby Dick' prequel / Captain Ahab book I'm working on. " Essays TitlePublicationNotesThe Story of Writing a StoryGlimmer Train (2012?)Read onlineIf You Build It, They Will Come: Letting Agents Come to YouWriter's Digest (10/2/2013)Read online