Michael Colbert is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn. He’s the author of the chapbook, Bottle Episodes, and is working on a novel about a celebrity ghost hunting reality TV show. He loves coffee (his favorites are Costa Rican and Ethiopian) and horror films (his favorites are Candyman and The Silence of the Lambs).

His writing appears in One Story, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Dwell, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NYLON, Interview, Hazlitt, Electric Literature, The Iowa Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Atlas Obscura, among others. He is the editor-at-large for books at the Portland Press Herald. He also writes the books and pop culture newsletter, Referential, and is the founding editor of The Rejoinder. He served as a fiction reader for Ecotone and STORY and was a prose editor and columnist at No Contact. A winner of the 2021 Shorter Fiction Prize, he has attended the Tin House Summer Workshop and was a 2021-2022 Brauer Fellow at UNCW.

Michael studied at Bowdoin College and earned his MFA in fiction at UNC Wilmington, where he also taught creative writing. Born in Massachusetts, he has lived in Rhode Island, North Carolina, Italy, Japan, and—his favorite—Maine. 

Contact: colbertmichaelj [at] gmail [dot] com

Agent: Mary C. Moore, Aevitas