Michael Hogan

Michael Hogan was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He earned both a BA and an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD in Latin American studies from the University of Guadalajara and the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is the author of six books of poetry, including Making Our Own Rules (1989), Imperfect Geographies (1998), and Winter Solstice: Selected Poems 1975-2012. He has also published the novel A Death in Newport (2011), essays on teaching in Latin America, and the history The Irish Soldiers of Mexico (1997), among other volumes. His honors and awards include a PEN Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the Grace Stoddard Literary Fellowship, and a gold medal from the Mexican Geographical Society.
 
Hogan is an international educator and a former consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts. The recipient of the Robert Shafer Memorial Award from the NCTE for outstanding contributions to international education, he is a former nominee for the Singer Prize in Excellence in Secondary Teaching from Harvard University and received a citation for meritorious service from the Office of Overseas Schools in the US State Department. He currently lives in Colonia Providencia, Guadalajara, Mexico, with his wife, the artist Lucinda Mayo.