Michael Mott

Author of Woman and the Sea (now available from Anhinga Press), Michael Mott was born in London in 1930. His mother was an American, his father English. He was educated in America and England and left England in 1966 to teach at Kenyon College. His first collection of poetry, The Cost of Living, was published in London in 1957. Mott has gone on to publish seven more books of poetry, two novels, two children's novels, and a best-selling biography of Thomas Merton. Apart from teaching at Kenyon, where he was poetry editor of the Kenyon Review, Mott has been twice writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary, and he has taught at Emory University, the State University of New York at Buffalo (Summer 1978), and Bowling Green State University (1980-92). He retired Emeritus and currently lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife, Emma Lou Powers.