Mike Alberti's short fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, One Story, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by fellowships and residencies including the Camargo Foundation, the James Merrill House, the Ucross Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. He lives in Minneapolis, where he serves as the Managing Director for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and teaches in prisons across the state.

The key to Mike Alberti's Some People Let You Down is the emotional gravity that dominates these characters' lives, drawing them down into themselves, their pasts, their home towns. This is character-driven fiction at its finest." - Zach VandeZande, author of Liminal Domestic: Stories and judge