Michael Morse was born in New York City, raised in Roslyn, N.Y., and attended Oberlin College and The University of Iowa. He has published poems in various journals — including A Public Space, The American Poetry Review, Field, jubilat, The Literary Review, Ploughshares, Spinning Jenny, and Tin House — and in the anthologies Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn; Starting Today: 100 Poems for Obama's First 100 Days; and The Best American Poetry, 2012. His first book, Void and Compensation, is out from Canarium Books.
Michael lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Bronx, N.Y. He also teaches poetry classes at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and the Summer Program Workshops at the Fine Arts Work Center.
