Writers Read Event - Alex Weinstien

Alexander Weinstein is the director of The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. His fiction and translations have appeared in Cream City Review, Notre-Dame Review, Pleiades, PRISM International, Sou’Wester, World Literature Today, Zone 3, and other journals. His fiction has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, an O.Henry Prize, and appears in the anthology 2013 New Stories from the Midwest. He is a professor of Creative Writing at Siena Heights University, and a lecturer at the University of Michigan. A graduate of Indiana University’s MFA program and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, he has been working as a creative writing teacher and freelance editor for the past twelve years, and leads fiction workshops in the United States and Europe.