Steve Amick

Steve Amick (born February 16, 1964) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Career
Steve Amick holds a BA in English-writing from St. Lawrence University and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University.

Amick's novels The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile were published by Pantheon Books. His short story appearances include Zoetrope: All-Story, Playboy, The Southern Review,  Michigan Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, in the anthology The Sound of Writing, and on National Public Radio.

Amick teaches at the Pacific University Low-Residency MFA creative writing program.

Novels

 * The Lake, the River & the Other Lake (2005)
 * Nothing But a Smile (2009)

Anthologies

 * Kwame Dawes, ed. When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life. Pacific University Press. (2016)
 * Keith Taylor and Laura Kasischke, eds. Ghost Writers: Contemporary Ghost Stories from Michigan. Wayne State University Press. (2011)
 * Robert Shapard and James Thomas, eds. New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond. W. W. Norton & Company. (2007)
 * Kathryn Harrison and Jeff Kass, eds. Unsquared: Ann Arbor’s Writers Unleash Their Edgiest Stories and Poems. 826michigan. (2006)
 * Alan Cheuse, ed. The Sound of Writing. Anchor/Doubleday. (1991)

Awards

 * Michigan Notable Book Award (2006 & 2010)
 * Washington Post Book of the Year (2005)
 * Michigan Quarterly Review's Lawrence Prize (2011)
 * Dan Rudy Prize, George Mason University (1989)