About the Author

Michael Credico lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and his fiction has been published in a variety of outlets, including Black Warrior Review, Columbia Journal, and Denver Quarterly.

Reviews

"Credico's sentences bloom out of one another like cherry trees that flower in winter. This book slants toward life in a way that feels real."
--Rita Bullwinkel
"In this warped, deliciously brutal debut collection, Michael Credico spins variations on a common Midwestern malady: feeling stuck and looking for a way out. His oddly alienated characters find themselves restrained again and again--choked by a too-tight necktie, caught in a glue trap, running a directionless road--trapped, like Cleveland's own Howard the Duck, in a world they never made."
--David Giffels, author of Furnishing Eternity and The Hard Way on Purpose
"Michael Credico in his book of palpating, pulsating fictions, Heartland Calamitous, captures perfectly the diastolic deadpanned dissonance in the heart of the heart of the country. Here one begins to sense what it feels like to believe you inhabit the goddam center of the world at the exact same time you know in your bones you are smack dab in the middle of blanking nowhere. Here the blue-bibbed and gingham-aproned American Gothic meets up with quadruple bypassed Vladimir and Estragon at some godforsaken mumbling murmuring four-chambered potholed crossroad of they-went-that-a-way America. These arresting fictions are your punched tickets back home, your itinerary to the scheduled crash landings in this leaden leaking lake-effected fever dreamt flyover."
--Michael Martone author of Brooding and The Moon Over Wapakoneta