Michael Downs
Michael Downs’s books include a collection of linked stories, The Greatest
Show (Louisiana State University Press, 2012), and House of Good Hope
(University of Nebraska Press, 2007), which won the River Teeth Literary
Nonfiction Prize. His recent nonfiction has appeared in AARP: The
Magazine, Baltimore Style, and River Teeth. A former newspaper reporter,
he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and
the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. He lives in Baltimore’s Hamilton
neighborhood, and teaches at Towson University.
