Mike Harvkey is the author of the novel, In the Course of Human Events (Soft Skull Press, 2014), a "pick of the week" by Los Angeles Magazine, The Millions, and Publishers Weekly. 

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Recently Mike handled research and reporting for the New York Times #1 bestselling true crime book, All-American Murder (Little, Brown, 2018), by James Patterson & Alex Abramovich, about convicted killer and New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez. 

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Mike has written for Esquire, Poets & Writers, Salon, The Believer, Alaska Quarterly Review, Nylon, The L, Trunk, Fiction Writers Review, Four & Sons, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. He is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Columbia University's MFA Program, and winner of short fiction awards from Zoetrope All-Story Magazine and Mississippi Review. Mike has taught Creative Writing at Columbia University and the University of California at Davis.

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Mike is currently at work on two novels, Hysterical Men, the literary-fiction follow-up to In the Course of Human Events, and a popular fiction genre-buster co-written with Johanna Lane.