Michael Poore
American novelist
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Michael Poore (born 1967 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American novelist, the author of three novels: Up Jumps the Devil (2012), Reincarnation Blues (2017) andTwo Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House (2019).[1][2][3][4][5] His short fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train,[6] Southern Review, Agni,[7] Fiction, and Asimov’s.[8] Poore lives in Highland, Indiana, with his wife, poet and activist Janine Harrison, and their daughter, Jianna.[9]
List of works
Novels
- Up Jumps the Devil (2012)
- Reincarnation Blues (2017)
- Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House (2019)
Short stories
| Title | Publication | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Earth | Carolina Quarterly (Spring 2000) | as Arlo Ramirez |
| The Fall of Enrico Montoya | Baltimore 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 issue |
| Romances | Black Warrior Web (Winter 2002) | |
| Six Chinese Cooks Rose into the Air | The Southern Review (Summer 2003) | |
| Chief Next Lightning's Phantom Hand | StoryQuarterly 39 (2004) | |
| The Wooden Mother | Talebones 30 (Summer 2005) | Honorable Mention: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 |
| The Wind in His Cotton Mountain Paradise | The Greensboro Review (Fall 2005) | |
| History of the Ghosts of Judy, Tennessee | StoryQuarterly 41 (2005) | honorable mention: 2006 SLF Fountain Award — for speculative fiction short story |
| The Fires of Krypton | Fiction 54 (2008) | |
| How to Raise a Positive-Thinking Baby | Fiction (2008) | |
| Three Fables About Entropy | Pacific Review (2008) | |
| Crazy Horse in Retirement | The MacGuffin (2008) | |
| Bury Me Under the Drugstore, Mama | Northwest Review Vol. 46, Issue 2 (May 2008) | |
| The Paint Giant | North Dakota Quarterly (Winter 2008) | |
| Blood Dauber | Asimov’s Science Fiction (October/November 2009) | written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka
reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection |
| The Beekeeper | Glimmer Train Stories 74 (2010) | |
| The Street of the House of the sun | The Pinch (2011) | reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 |
| The Rain That Time/That Thing That Happened | AGNI 81 (2015) | |
| The Fool Killer | New Limestone Review (2017) | Read online |
| What The Fire God Said To The Beast | My 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.[10]."[better source needed] |
Essays
| Title | Publication | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| The Story of Writing a Story | Glimmer Train (2012?) | Read online |
| If You Build It, They Will Come: Letting Agents Come to You | Writer's Digest (10/2/2013) | Read online |
