Mike Schneider has published poems in many literary journals and two previous poetry chapbooks. Three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, he won the 2012 Editors Award in Poetry from The Florida Review and the 2016 Robert Phillips Prize from Texas Review Press. He began writing during the Vietnam War when, while serving at an air force base in Ohio, he published an anti- war underground newspaper. After three years practicing law, he studied literature and writing in graduate school. He has worked as a science writer, won awards for magazine writing, and written poetry reviews and essays on culture for several publications. With a colleague in 2010, he founded East End Poets, a group of Pittsburgh-based writers who meet to share their work. In 2017, for the Lifelong Learning program at Carnegie Mellon University, he taught the first course on Bob Dylan in Pittsburgh. He lives in that city's historic South Side neighborhood.
