Michael Quattrone is the author of Rhinoceroses (New School Chapbook Series, 2007), and a co-curator of the legendary KGB Monday night poetry series with poet Laura Cronk. He is an artistic associate with Visible Theatre, where he facilitates a multi-genre writing circle. He is also on the Theatre Arts & Studies faculty at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught the history of modern theatre and drama.
Michael’s poetry was first published in 2005, when Octopus Magazine featured eight of his poems in its New Poets Issue (# 6), with an introduction by David Lehman. Since then, his work has appeared in Barrow Street, Caffeine Destiny, McSweeney’s, No Tell Motel and Pebble Lake Review. More poems are forthcoming in New York Quarterly and POOL. His work is featured in the anthologies The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel—Second Floor (No Tell Books, 2007) and The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (Scribner, 2008).
Michael’s chapbook, Rhinoceroses, won the 2006 New School Chapbook Award, selected by Olena Kalytiak Davis (to request a copy of Rhinoceroses, click here).
Michael was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1977. He grew up in Connecticut, New York, and Ohio. He earned degrees at Northwestern University, where he studied theatre and English, and The New School, where he studied poetry.
He lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, with his wife and three children.
© Michael Quattrone, 2007