Steve Amick

Steve Amick (born February 16, 1964) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Career Steve Amick holds a BA in English-writing from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University.

Amick's novels The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile were published by Pantheon Books. His most recent publication is the novel You Shall See the Beautiful Things published by Acre Books. His short story appearances include Zoetrope: All-Story, Playboy, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, in the anthology The Sound of Writing, and on National Public Radio.

Amick teaches at the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA creative writing program.

Works

Novels The Lake, the River & the Other Lake (2005) Nothing But a Smile (2009) You Shall See the Beautiful Things (2023)

Anthologies Kwame Dawes, ed. When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life. Pacific University Press. (2016) Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke, eds. Ghost Writers: Contemporary Ghost Stories from Michigan. Wayne State University Press. (2011) Robert Shapard and James Thomas, eds. New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond. W. W. Norton & Company. (2007) Kathryn Harrison and Jeff Kass, eds. Unsquared: Ann Arbor’s Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems. 826michigan. (2006) Alan Cheuse, ed. The Sound of Writing. Anchor/Doubleday. (1991)

Awards Michigan Notable Book Award (2006 & 2010) Washington Post Book of the Year (2005) Michigan Quarterly Review's Lawrence Prize (2011)