Writer C. Michael Curtis has edited fiction for The Atlantic since the 1960's. Under his direction, The Atlantic Monthly’s fiction is nominated for a National Magazine Award virtually every year; in 1988 the magazine won this prestigious prize. He edited American Stories: Fiction from the Atlantic Monthly (1990), Contemporary New England Stories (1992), and Contemporary West Coast Stories (1993). His own essays, articles, reviews, and poems have been published in The Atlantic, The New Republic, National Review, and Sport, among other periodicals. Curtis is also renowned for his teaching: he has taught creative writing, ethics, grammar, and other subjects for more than 30 years at Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Tufts, Boston University, Bennington, and elsewhere.
Curtis earned a B.A. in English from Cornell in 1956. He began working at The Atlantic in 1963 after four years of study toward a Ph.D. in government, also at Cornell. Previously he had worked as a reporter for The Ithaca Journal, and as an editorial assistant at Newsweek. He was a Fellow at MacDowell four times between 1971 and 1973. Curtis currently lives in Littleton, Massachusetts with his wife.
