Background

Coleman Bigelow is a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction nominated author whose stories have longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 and appear in a wide variety of literary journals. Recent publications include: Bending Genres, BULL, Cease, Cows, Ghost Parachute, Moonpark Review and Roi Faineant Press. He studied creative writing at The University of Virginia and The New School. He received his M.B.A. from The Darden Graduate School of Business and currently serves as Head of Industry at Google in New York.

Before landing in the Garden State, he lived and wrote in Charlottesville, Louisville, New York, San Francisco and Paris. He lives with his wife, three kids and two dogs in the beautifully creative town of Maplewood, NJ.

Recent writing workshops include:

• GUT REAL w/Sara Lippmann

• A Public Space’s Novel Workshop w/Elizabeth Gaffney

• Lyrical Writing w/ Matt Kendrick

• Much More Than Less w/Sarah Freligh

• Elegance in Miniature w/Kathy Fish

• Writing Flash with Carver w/Tommy Dean

• Flash in All Its Forms w/ Cheryl Pappas

• Zoetrope & Gotham’s Advanced Fiction Writing w/Michael Ray & Michael Backus

• Cleaver Magazine’s Flash Fiction Revision w/Kathryn Kulpa

• Dystopian Microfiction w/Meg Pokrass

• SmokeLong Quarterly’sIntensive w/ J. Sawers, C. Allen, D. Michele Norris, and Elisabeth Ingram Wallace.