Michael Don is the author of the story collection Partners and Strangers, a finalist for the 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award in short fiction.
His second story collection is coming out with Cornerstone Press in 2028.
Stories and essays of his are forthcoming or have appeared in journals such as The Threepenny Review, World Literature Today, Puerto Del Sol, The Southampton Review, Passages North, Southern Humanities Review, and Washington Square Review.
He is a professor at George Mason University, co-editor of Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature, and co-organizer of the Fox City Lit reading series.
Michael grew up in St. Louis, Missouri—the capital of the southwest quadrant of the American Midwest.