The Hidden Dangers Lurking Behind Every Window—What Michael Gutierrez Wants You to Know
In my classroom in Galway, there is a wall entirely made up of windows where we looked out at a parking lot and a row of trees siding up next to the River Corrib. My American students say that no one would ever build a classroom like this back home. Nowhere to hide.
Meet the Contributor
Michael Keenan Gutierrez is the author of The Swill and The Trench Angel and earned degrees from UCLA, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of New Hampshire. His work has been published in The Rumpus, The Sonora Review, The Guardian, The Delmarva Review, The Collagist (now The Rupture), The Pisgah Review, Untoward, The Boiler, and Public Books. His screenplay, The Granite State, was a finalist at the Austin Film Festival and he has received fellowships from The University of Houston and the New York Public Library. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
