The Coast of Good Intentions

Michael Byers is an American writer born in 1971 in Seattle, Washington. A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Michigan MFA program, he is best known for his debut short story collection The Coast of Good Intentions (1998), which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a New York Times Notable Book, and a PEN/Hemingway finalist; his novels include Long for This World (2003) and Percival's Planet (2010). ), Story Magazine, Blog review