Michael Gushue has been published in many journals, including the Indiana Review, Third Coast, Eunoia, Gargoyle, and American Letters and Commentary. He co-ran the BAWA Poetry Reading Series and Poetry at the Watergate and runs the nanopress 81 Names with Dan Vera. His books are Pine Barrens, Modern Love, Q&A for the End of the World (in collaboration with Kim Roberts), Sympathy for the Monster, Gather Down Women, Conrad, Pachinko Mouth, I Never Promised You A Sea Monkey (in collaboration with CL Bledsoe), The Judy Poems (in collaboration with CL Bledsoe), and—forthcoming—Palace of Depression (in collaboration with CL Bledsoe). He lives with his wife, Susan, in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC.
