About Michael Garrigan

I'm an angler, writer, and teacher living along the Susquehanna River in southern Pennsylvania. My essays and poems have appeared in The Wayfarer, Gray's Sporting Journal, The Drake Magazine, Susquehanna Life Magazine, San Pedro River Review, Hawk & Handsaw Journal of Creative Sustainability, Barren Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Southern Culture on the Fly, Dirt Rag Magazine, and various other anthologies and magazines.

​Recent Publications

• "Keeping Susquehanna River Lands Wild" - Susquehanna Life Magazine, Summer, 2019
• "Life-Cage" - Sky Island Journal, Issue 8, Spring 2019 
• "Barrel of Eels," "Diadromous," "Severance Tax," "Robbing the Pillars" - Hawk & Handsaw, Vol. 11, 2019
• "Heist" - The Drake Magazine, Fall 2018
• "Dead Bodies of the Susquehanna" - The Wayfarer, Autumn/Winter 2018
• "Recycled Images" - Susquehanna Life Magazine, Spring 2018
• "Frozen Antlers" - Gray's Sporting Journal, Fly Fishing Edition - March/April 2018
• "​You Laughed When I didn't know what 'Jaded' Meant" - San Pedro River Review "Music" - Spring 2018
• "Susquehanna Smallmouth" - The Drake Magazine, Summer 2017
• "A Story of Place: Bringing the Susquehanna River into Focus" - Susquehanna Life Magazine, Summer 2017
• "Shaped By Water - On Brook Trout and Brotherhood" - Southern Culture on the Fly, Spring 2017

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I'm excited to announce that my first book of poems, What I Know [How to Do], will be released this fall by Finishing Line Press. It's a collection of 25 "How-To" poems that explore how to connect with the land you walk and the fires you build. The poems climb Katahdin, survive blizzards at 8,000 feet, and run Susquehanna River rapids. They tell how to make mountains, create lakes, and read landscapes. I'd be honored if you added this to your bookshelf, or better yet, bent it in half so it fit in your back pocket. You can pre-order your copy here. Thanks so much for your support and for reading!

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