“A simple description, Lewis, that’s all I’m asking.” He bangs that ridiculous cane on the floor, thunk thunk. Vertical strokes meant as punctuation, little jabs to splash some color on his words. Only sometimes the jabs get loud, angry. “Is that too much for you?” He says it with a giggly quaver to let me […]
Michael Pearce
MICHAEL PEARCE’s stories and poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review, The Yale Review, Conjunctions, Epoch, Nimrod, The Sun, and elsewhere, and have won some national prizes (New Ohio Review, Dogwood, Oberon, The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Prize in Fiction, and others). His collection of poems, Santa Lucia by Starlight, won the Brighthorse Prize in Poetry and was published by Brighthorse Books earlier this year. He has worked as a furniture designer and builder, a university lecturer, and as Director of Cognition Exhibits at the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. He lives in Oakland, California and plays saxophone in the Bay Area band Highwater Blues.
