Sam Michel is the author of Under the Light, a collection of stories (Knopf), Lincoln Dahl Turns Five (Tyrant Books), and Big Dogs and Flyboys (Southern Methodist University Press).

His fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The New York Tyrant, Epoch, and elsewhere. In 2008 Sam Michel won the Lidano Fiction Award--a contest for the best short fiction of the year.

Sam Michel studied writing under Gordon Lish, who championed his writing and published Michel's first collection at Knopf. He received his MFA degree from the University of Florida.