MIKE WHITE portrait
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Undergraduate Studies
801-585-9867

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
  • Master of Arts, MCGILL UNIVERSITY
  • Doctor of Philosophy, UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Biography

Mike White is a poet and faculty member in the LEAP Program at the University of Utah.  He has degrees from the University of Toronto (B.A.), McGill University (M.A.), and the University of Utah (Ph.D.).  White's teaching interests include creative writing, Romantic poetry, environmental literature, and the Gothic.  He is is the author of two poetry collections: How to Make a Bird with Two Hands (Word Works, 2012) and Addendum to a Miracle (Waywiser, 2017), winner of the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.  Individual poems have appeared in journals including The New Republic, Poetry, Rattle, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, and the Kenyon Review Online.