John Michael Cummings

John Michael Cummings
Author John Michael Cummings
Born	1963 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Occupation	Author
Language	English
Nationality	American
Citizenship	American

John Michael Cummings (born 1963 in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia) is an American novelist and short story writer. His novels include The Night I Freed John Brown, winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People, Ugly To Start With, IndieFab Award Finalist, and Don't Forget Me, Bro. Cummings' short stories and essays have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Kenyon Review, and The Iowa Review. His short fiction has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. His short story "The Scratchboard Project" received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007.

Cummings lives in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.^[1]

Works

Short stories

• "Missing," Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol.10, Spring/Summer 1992
• "Like Apes," Berkeley Fiction Review, No. 11, 1992
• "Fourteen Seconds," The North American Review, Summer 01
• "Mountains and Seas," Sou’wester, 01
• "The Fence," Confrontation, No. 82/83 Spring/Summer 03
• "The Gun Wall," North Dakota Quarterly, Winter/Spring 03
• "Rising to the Occasion," South Dakota Review, Winter 04
• "The Scratchboard Project," The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 06 (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007)
• "Treasure Hunt," The Chattahoochee Review, Winter 07, Vol. 27, No.2
• "Marshmallow People," The Kenyon Review, Winter 08, Vol. 30, No.1

Young adult novels

• The Night I Freed John Brown. New York: Philomel Books (Penguin Group), 2008. ISBN 978-0-399-25054-5
• Ugly to Start With Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-935-97808-4

Adult novels

• Don't Forget Me, Bro. Texas: Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-62288-078-2

Novellas

• The House My Father. Finalist, 2006 Miami University Novella Contest.
• Chimney Rock. Semi-finalist, Winnow Press 2004 First Book Award for Fiction.

References

• Kirkus Reviews, The Night I Freed John Brown review
• Teen Book Review, The Night I Freed John Brown summary
• Teen Reads, The Night I Freed John Brown review
• John Brown (abolitionist)
• West Virginia University Press, Ugly to Start With summary
• The Truth About Lies, Ugly To Start With review
• Typographical Era, Don't Forget Me, Bro review
• Book Ideas, Don't Forget Me, Bro analysis

References

External links

• John Michael Cummings’ Homepage