Michael Dumanis teaches literature and creative writing at Cleveland State University, where he serves as Director of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and edits the books in their poetry series. His first collection of poems, My Soviet Union, won the Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published in 2007 by the University of Massachusetts Press. He is also the coeditor, with poet Cate Marvin, of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and the Section Editor for the poetries of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Russia, and Slovakia in the Graywolf Press anthology The New European Poets, edited by Kevin Prufer and Wayne Miller. His poems have appeared in such journals as Conduit, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, New England Review, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, and Verse, and his writing has been recognized with a Fulbright Fellowship, a James Michener Fellowship in Fiction, a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, and fellowships to Yaddo, the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Civitella Ranieri Center in Umbertide, Italy.