Michael Poore


Michael Poore is an American novelist, the author of three novels: Up Jumps the Devil, Reincarnation Blues andTwo Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House. 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, and their daughter, Jianna.

List of works

NovelsUp Jumps the Devil Reincarnation Blues Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House
Short stories
TitlePublicationNotes
Blue EarthCarolina Quarterly as Arlo Ramirez
The Fall of Enrico MontoyaBaltimore Review reprinted in Red Wheelbarrow
The Whale in the MoonHaydens Ferry Review 29 reprinted in Second Writes inaugural issue
RomancesBlack Warrior Web
Six Chinese Cooks Rose into the AirThe Southern Review
Chief Next Lightning's Phantom HandStoryQuarterly 39
The Wooden MotherTalebones 30 Honorable Mention: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006
The Wind in His Cotton Mountain ParadiseThe Greensboro Review
History of the Ghosts of Judy, TennesseeStoryQuarterly 41 honorable mention: 2006 SLF Fountain Award — for speculative fiction short story
The Fires of KryptonFiction 54
How to Raise a Positive-Thinking BabyFiction
Three Fables About EntropyPacific Review
Crazy Horse in RetirementThe MacGuffin
Bury Me Under the Drugstore, MamaNorthwest Review Vol. 46, Issue 2
The Paint GiantNorth Dakota Quarterly
Blood DauberAsimov’s Science Fiction written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka
reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection
The BeekeeperGlimmer Train Stories 74
The Street of the House of the sunThe Pinch reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012
The Rain That Time/That Thing That HappenedAGNI 81
The Fool KillerNew Limestone Review
What The Fire God Said To The BeastMy Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed Michael described it as "an excerpted chapter from the 'Moby Dick' prequel / Captain Ahab book I'm working on.."

Essays
TitlePublicationNotes
The Story of Writing a StoryGlimmer Train
If You Build It, They Will Come: Letting Agents Come to YouWriter's Digest