Steve Amick
Steve Amick (born 1964) 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 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 (2005) Nothing But a Smile (2009) Anthologies Kwame Dawes, ed. When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life. Pacific University Press. (2016) Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke, eds. Ghost Writers: Contemporary Ghost Stories from Michigan. Wayne State University Press. (2011) Robert Shapard and James Thomas, eds. New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond. W. W. Norton & Company. (2007) Kathryn Harrison and Jeff Kass, eds. Unsquared: Ann Arbor’s Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems. 826michigan. (2006) Alan Cheuse, ed. The Sound of Writing. Anchor/Doubleday. (1991) Awards Michigan Notable Book