Michael Klein is an award-winning poet and author. His poetry collections 1990 and Poets for Life are winners of the Lambda Literary Book Award. He lives in New York City and teaches memoir writing in the summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Klein's prose style, like his poetry, is dreamy, allusive, repetitive in that way that admirers term 'hypnotic.' - Publishers Weekly ""Klein is a superb craftsman with a poet's gift for winging in and out of his own life, picking out the bright detail. He often uses rich language to describe the mysteries behind everyday life - accomplishing all this without ever coming across as the pompous center of his own universe."" - Harold Eugene Baldwin, Frontiers ""Like an insurance policy written for himself, Klein's work boldly denies pre-existing literary conditions."" - Jim Gladstone, Lambda Book Report ""Klein's thoughtful writing reflects ongoing ruminations, so thought-provokingly personal yet universal that readers may pause occasionally to really absorb them."" - Booklist