Mike Copperman

Location

Eugene, Oregon

Occupation

Writer; Teacher

Bio

Michael Copperman teaches writing to low-income, at-risk students of color at the University of Oregon, where he received his MFA in fiction in 2006. He also has a B.A. in English with Creative Writing from Stanford, where he graduated summa cum laude and was a Presidential Scholar. His nonfiction has appeared in The Oxford-American, Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, The Rumpus, Anderbo, Stanford Magazine, Brevity, , Teachers and Writers, Intermat, The Oregonian, The Register-Guard, and The Eugene Weekly, and is forthcoming from Post Road and Copper Nickel. He is also the recipient of the 2009 Walter Morey Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction from Oregon Literary Arts. His fiction has been published in The Arkansas Review, Thirdreader, and 34th Parallel, and is forthcoming from Copper Nickel and Unsaid. His story “Harm,” was recently shortlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Prize, and appears in issue 17 of the Munster Literature Centre’s magazine Southword. \\\\n\\\\nFrom 2002-04, he taught fourth grade in the rural black public schools of the Mississippi Delta with Teach For America. His novel “Gone” is based in that experience.

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Joined

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