Michael Poore

Michael Poore‘s fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Fiction, Talebones, Southern Review, The Pinch, and other magazines. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Fountain Award, and the Sturgeon Award. Poore lives in Northwest Indiana with his wife, writer Janine Harrison, and daughter Jianna. He is a proud member of the Highland Writer’s Group and the Indiana Writer’s Consortium. His debut novel is UP JUMPS THE DEVIL(Ecco, 2012), a story that follows John Scratch, the devil himself, and was praised by NYT bestselling author Patrick deWitt as, “Part fable, part warped historical travelogue, Up Jumps the Devil is an inscrutably charming debut novel that poses the question: What if Satan wasn’t that bad a guy? I don’t know where Michael Poore came from, but I sure am glad he’s here.”