Burning Down My Father's House

Michael Gills is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction, including Finisterre, the second book of a two-part visionary memoir (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2021) and the novel West (RDSP, 2019), Book three of the Go Love Quartet. His short story collection The House Across from the Deaf School (Texas Review Press, 2016) won a Utah Book Prize. Other work has been awarded the Southern Humanities Review’s Theodore Hoefner Prize for Fiction, Southern Review’s Best Debut of the Year, recognition in the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize Anthology, and inclusion in New Stories from The South: The Year’s Best. His undergraduate novel writing workshop been featured in USA Today, and several of his students have gone on to publish books of their own. Gills is a Distinguished Honors Professor at the University of Utah.

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