Poems of Michael Gessner were selected in various competitions as finalists and semifinalists including "Discovery," The Nation, and the Pablo Neruda Award. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, his reviews and articles have been published by Allyn & Bacon, C. V. Mosby, Times-Mirror, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and the University of Pennsylvania's Jacket2. He has given invited readings and presentations at state poetry societies, chapters of the AAUW, nursing facilities, Casa Libre en la Solana, and various civic and literary organizations, colleges and universities including the University of Arizona, the American-Irish Historical Society (NYC, ) University College Dublin, and Cambridge University. His work has been called "Striking" (David Barber, The Atlantic) and "Structurally ingenious" (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife and their dog, Irish.
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