Michael Atkinson is an American writer, poet and film critic. His debut novel is Hemingway Deadlights, and he has written film and culture critiques for The Believer, Sight & Sound, The Guardian, Film Comment, The Village Voice, In These Times, True/Slant, SPiN, Maxim, The Boston Phoenix, Details, The Progressive, Moving Image Source, IFC.com, TCM.com, Movieline, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago Reader, LA Weekly, The Stranger, The American Prospect, City Paper, Modern Painters, and other publications. His volume Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood featured work by Guy Maddin, Stuart Klawans, Chuck Stephens, Dennis Lim, Ed Park, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joshua Clover, Jessica Winter, David Thompson, Howard Hampton, David Sterritt, and others. His debut book of poetry is One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train, and his poems have also appeared in a number of journals, including The Threepenny Review, Ontario Review, Chelsea, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, Crazyhorse, The Seneca Review, New Letters, Cimarron Review, and The Laurel Review, among others. Since 1997, Atkinson has taught at Long Island University/C.W. Post. 

January 1st, 1962 in (Age 62)