Michael Carroll (born 1964) is an American writer. He published his debut short story collection, Little Reef, in 2014."Little Reef and Other Stories" . New York Journal of Books. The collection, which portrays characters that, according to the UW Press, are "people stunned by the shock of the now, who have forgotten their pasts and can’t envision a future". The book was a shortlisted nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards"The 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists" . Lambda Literary Foundation, March 4, 2015. and won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His second book, Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2019.
His short stories have appeared in magazines Ontario Review, Boulevard, Southwest Review, The Yale Review, Open City, Animal Shelter, and anthologies such as Men on Men 7, Boys Like Us, and The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories."Michael Carroll: On His New Short Story Collection, the Benefits of a Spare Writing Style, and His Literary Inspirations" . Lambda Literary Foundation, July 2, 2014.
Born in Memphishttps://new.santamaddalena.org/michael-carroll/ and raised in Jacksonville, Florida,Andrew Holleran, "What Michael Carroll Writes About When He Writes About Writers" . Interview. he became the partner of Edmund White in 1995. Carroll and White were married in 2013, and White died in 2025.
Works Little Reef (2014) Stella Maris: And Other Key West Stories (2019)
References
External links Study in Sepia