Michael Dickman was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. His twin brother, Matthew, also has poems on this site. Michael is the author of three collections of poetry: Green Migraine (Copper Canyon Press, 2016); The End Of The West (Copper Canyon, 2009); and Flies (Copper Canyon, 2011), which won the James Laughlin Award for the best second book by an American poet. He and Matthew collaborated on 50 American Plays (Copper Canyon, 2012), a book of poem-plays about the fifty states.
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