Michael Baldwin

Michael Baldwin is a native of Fort Worth, TX, and may be descended from the Lakota mystic warrior, Crazy Horse. He holds advanced degrees in Political Science and Library Science. Now retired from a career as a library administrator and professor of American Government, Baldwin has published extensively in literary journals and anthologies. His poetry was featured on the national radio program The Romantic Hours, and has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He won the Violet Newton Prize, 2000, for the poem, Love Drunk Lunar Eclipse, won the Eakin Manuscript award, 2011 for his poetry book, Scapes, and won the Morris Memorial Chapbook Award, 2012, for Counting Backward From Infinity. His book of Texas poetry, Lone Star Heart (Lamar University Press, 2016) vied for the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Book Award. His book, The Quantum Uncertainty of Love (Shanti Arts Press, 2019) was a National Book Award nominee. Mr. Baldwin has also published the mystery thriller, Murder Music, the exotic thriller, Neanderthal Gita, 5 collections of science-fiction short stories: Passing Strange, Surpassing Strange, More Than Passing Strange, & Beyond Passing Strange; a children’s science/adventure book, Space Cat, and a book of flash plays, A Few Bricks Shy Of A Chevrolet. Mr. Baldwin resides in Marble Falls, TX. Please visit his author website: www.jmbaldwin.com.