Mikael Awake

Assistant Professor
Pardee Room 309
awakem@lafayette.edu

Degrees

  • M.F.A., Syracuse University
  • Teaching interests: Creative writing; short fiction; genre fiction; contemporary literature; cultural criticism; TV writing; African diaspora literature; literature in translation; climate change fiction.
  • Selected publications:
    • “The Good Plan,” McSweeney’s #58 (forthcoming).
    • Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir (with Daniel R. Day), Random House, 2019.
    • “As We Approach the City,” The Common, 2019.
    • “Your Taxi Is the Greatest Movement,” Witness, 2011.