Michael Spence served a hitch as a naval officer aboard an aircraft carrier then drove public-transit buses in the Seattle area for thirty years, retiring from the latter job on Valentine's Day, 2014. His poems have recently appeared in Alabama Literary Review, Arkansas Review, Catamaran, The Hopkins Review, Lousiana Literature, North American Review, Tampa Review, Tar River Poetry, and Terrain.org. New work is forthcoming in The Hudson Review, The Madrona Project, The Southern Review, and the anthology, Transformations. His latest book, Umbilical (St. Augustine's Press, 2016), won The New Criterion Poetry Prize. His new volume, Brine Evaporates to Salt on Blacktop, is slated for publication this fall by Able Muse Press.
1634 11th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122