We regret that Michael Gills will be unable to attend this year’s Book Festival.

Michael Gills was McKean Poetry Fellow at the University of Arkansas and Randall Jarrell Fellow in Fiction in the MFA Program at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.  He earned the Ph.D. in Creative Writing/Fiction at the University of Utah.  His work is currently featured in Oxford American's Best of the South issue and Verb 4: An Audio Quarterly.  Other fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Boulevard, The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Quarterly West, Salt Flats Annual, Moon City Review, Nebo Literary Quarterly, Arkansas Literary Forum, Parting Gifts, Lynx Eye, New York Stories, Salt Hill Journal, Flint Hills Review, Santa Clara Review, New Stories From The South: The Year's Best and elsewhere.  Why I Lie:  Stories (University of Nevada Press, September, 2002) won the Utah Arts Publication Prize, was a finalist for the Utah Humanities Book Prize, the Arkansas Porter Prize, and was chosen by Southern Review as one of the top debut books of 2002.  He is currently marketing a second book of stories, The Death of Bonnie & Clyde and a novel, Go Love, chapters of which have appeared in Chattahoochee Review and Red Mountain Review.   Gills, the 2005-2006 Utah Arts Endowed Artist in Fiction, teaches writing in the Honors Department at the University of Utah.

Gills will appear on a Fiction Writing Panel at the Utah Humanities Book Festival.

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