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Michael A. Ferro

Michael A. Ferro's debut novel, TITLE 13, was published by Harvard Square Editions and chosen as a "Best Book of 2018" by the Emerging Writers Network. He was named as a finalist by Glimmer Train for their New Writers Award, won the Jim Cash Creative Writing Award for Fiction, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Michael’s writing has appeared in numerous literary journals and print anthologies, including Juked, Monkeybicycle, Poets & Writers, Heavy Feather Review, Vulture, Crack the Spine, Duende, BULL: Men’s Fiction, Entropy, Splitsider, and elsewhere. Born and bred in Detroit, Michael has lived, worked, and written throughout the Midwest; he currently resides in rural Ann Arbor, Michigan. Additional information can be found at: www.michaelaferro.com.

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