Michael C. White

Author Bio:

My new novel, Skunktown, will be released by Regal House in the summer 2027.  Among other things the novel is about a young boy in 1968 confronting the racism he sees around him.

My previous novel, Resting Places, was runner-up for 2024 Best General Fiction category  from the Indie Authors Project. “Michael C. White’s Resting Places is a beautiful depiction of grace in the midst of grief, a modern odyssey across America, populated with memorable characters.” Foreward

My six previous novels include:

• Soul Catcher, which was a Booksense and Historical Novels Review selection, as well as a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award.
• A Brother’s Blood, which was a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers nominee.
• The Blind Side of the Heart, an Alternate Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
• A Dream of Wolves, which received starred reviews from Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly.
• The Garden of Martyrs, also a Connecticut Book Award finalist and made into an opera of the same name.
• Beautiful Assassin, which won the Connecticut Book Award.
• A collection of his short stories, Marked Men, was published by the University of Missouri Press.

I’ve also published over 50 short stories in national magazines and journals, and have won the Advocate Newspapers Fiction Award and been nominated for both a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart. I was the founding editor of the yearly fiction anthology American Fiction as well as Dogwood.

Before I retired I was the founder and former director of Fairfield University’s low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program. I live on an old horse-farm in Madison, CT with my wife Reni and my two Labs Lincoln and Falstaff.  I write in a cabin in the woods.

With my best buds, Falstaff and Henry.