Shay, Michael

Cheyenne, WY
michaelshay@hummingbirdminds.com
www.hummingbirdminds.com
Laramie County

Biographical and Professional Information

Michael Shay's fiction and essays have been published in Northern Lights, High Plains Literary Review, Colorado Review, Owen Wister Review, Visions, High Plains Register, and In Short, a Norton anthology of brief creative nonfiction. His book of short fiction, The Weight of a Body, was published by Ghost Road Press in April 2006. He is a past board member of the Wyoming Center for the Book, and was co-editor of the Center’s 2003 anthology, Deep West: A Literary Tour of Wyoming. He works for the Wyoming Arts Council as the Arts Specialist for Literature, Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

Genres

Fiction
Wyoming Subjects

Titles

Weight of a Body (2006). Denver, CO: Ghost Road Press. ISBN: 0977803414.

Deep West: A literary tour of Wyoming (Editor) (2003). Greybull, WY: Pronghorn Press. ISBN: 0971472572. Co-editors David Romtvedt and Linn Rounds.

Portrait of the Arts in Wyoming: A collection of interviews (1997). Cheyenne, WY: Wyoming Arts Council. ISBN: (?). Co-author Wendy Bredehoft.

Speaking Engagements

Michael has read his stories and essays at venues through Wyoming and in Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Florida, Texas, and Washington, D.C. He has been a featured speaker at arts conferences in Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, and Oregon. He accepts speaking engagements.
Personal Contact: michaelshay@hummingbirdminds.com
Work Contact: mshay@state.wy.us