Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Arts

M.F.A. University of Alaska, Anchorage
B.A. University of Arizona

afmhb1@uaa.alaska.edu

Michael Burwell was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1948 but grew up in Seattle.  He moved east to Rochester, New York when he was thirteen and later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.

In 1982 he moved to Alaska to attend the University of Alaska, Anchorage.  He now works as a technical editor and does historical research, teaching creative writing part time at UAA.  

His poems and stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Pacific Review, Northland Quarterly, Louisville Review, Points North, Tongue, Thunderbird and a number of regional anthologies.  In 1989, his collection North and West was published by Heaven Bone Press in New York as the winner of their annual International Chapbook Competition.  

 

	North and West
	A collection of Michael Burwell's favorite poems.  These poems come from his years in the mountains and on the waters of the West and Alaska.

	Poems and Plays No. 2
	Poems and Plays is a journal of poetry, drama and art published annually in the spring.  This issue features works by Michael Burwell.