Steve Amick


Steve Amick 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
  • Nothing But a Smile
  • ''You Shall See the Beautiful Things''

    Anthologies

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

    Awards

  • Michigan Notable Book Award
  • Washington Post Book of the Year
  • Michigan Quarterly Review's Lawrence Prize
  • Dan Rudy Prize, George Mason University