M. Bartley Seigel is a poet, editor, and teacher, former Poet Laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. He is the author of the poetry collections: In the Bone-Cracking Cold (forthcoming, Wayne State Press, 2025); and This Is What They Say (Typecast Publishing, 2012). His poetry frequently appears in literary journals like POETRY, Michigan Quarterly Review, About Place, Fourth River, Thrush, and elsewhere. He is founding editor-in-chief of the sometimes poetry letterpress, Simple Machines, and founding editor emeritus of the literary magazine, [PANK], which he co-edited with Roxane Gay from 2005-2015. He was born and raised in the Five Corners location near Coral, Michigan, and has spent most of his life in the Lake Superior watershed of the Great Lakes bioregion and borderland. He holds degrees from Penn State, University Park (MFA, Creative Writing) and Eastern Michigan University (BA, Journalism). For the last twenty years, he has lived with his family on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Ojibwe homelands, where he is Writing Center Director and Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Michigan Technological University.

Website: https://mbartleyseigel.com

Publications

• (forthcoming 2025) In the Bone-Cracking Cold , Wayne State University Press
• This Is What They Say , Typecast Publishing (September 2012)

Awards

• Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow(2021)
• Poet Laureate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula(2021)

Employment

• Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University (August 2005 - )
• Writing Center Director at Michigan Technological University (July 2020 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Eastern Michigan University (April 1998)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Pennsylvania State University (April 2004)

Genres of Interest

Poetry