Poet Michael Earl Craig was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Montana and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Craig’s published poetry collections include Can You Relax in My House (Fence Books, 2002), Yes, Master (Fence, 2006), Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010), Talkativeness (Wave, 2014), Woods and Clouds Interchangeable (Wave, 2019), and Iggy Horse (Wave, 2023), as well as the chapbook Jombang Jet (Factory Hollow Press, 2012). His poetry has been included in the anthologies Isn’t It Romantic (2004), Poems About Horses (2009), and The Best American Poetry (2014) and in numerous journals and magazines.
Craig was Poet Laureate of Montana from 2015 to 2017. As Jesse Nathan writes, “Michael Earl Craig has developed a poetry as whimsical as it is serious, diffusing the gravitas not by leaving it out, but by building out a surface—a texture in language—that feels disarming, direct, omnivorous in its references, and impishly playful.”
He lives in the Shields Valley near Livingston, Montana, where he works as a farrier.
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