Background
Coleman Bigelow is a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction nominated author whose stories have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals. 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’s now settled with his wife, three kids and two dogs in the beautifully creative town of Maplewood, NJ.
Recent writing workshops include:
A Public Space’s Novel Workshop w/Elizabeth Gaffney
Much More Than Less w/Sarah Freligh
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’s Intensive with Jasmine Sawers, Christopher Allen, Denne Michele Norris, and Elisabeth Ingram Wallace.
The Work
My writing is informed by the contrasting experiences of a childhood split between North and South and a career split between East and West. Leadership roles in healthcare, media and technology provide fodder for characters struggling to define success and build connection.
