Michael M. Weinstein

Michael M. Weinstein is a poet, scholar, and essayist whose debut collection Saint Consequence meditates on the body as a site of continuous change—both painful and beautiful, elected and imposed.Weinstein explores the tensions between public perception and private truth, crafting poems that insist on the force and value of extravagance—of language, of desire, of daring to reimagine one’s place in the world. A proud member of the trans and disability communities, Weinstein holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard and an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where he was a Zell Postgraduate Fellow and winner of three Hopwood awards. A former Fulbright scholar in Siberia, his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, the Iowa Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and on Poets.org. He lives in New York and teaches at NYU.