Michael Hogan (writer)

rdf:langString Michael Hogan (writer)

rdf:langString Michael Hogan

rdf:langString Michael Hogan

rdf:langString Mexican history, global politics, American literature, poetry

rdf:langString Francis Garrison , Melissa Field

rdf:langString B.A. and MFA in Creative Writing

rdf:langString Ph.D. in Latin American Studies

rdf:langString Poetry, history, fiction, non-fiction

rdf:langString English, Spanish

rdf:langString Irish Soldiers of Mexico, Abraham Lincoln and Mexico, Savage Capitalism and the Myth of Democracy, Winter Solstice, A Lion at a Cocktail Party, Making Our Own Rules

rdf:langString Poet, historian, author

rdf:langString Cynthia Hooper Jojo Danaker Lucinda Mayo

rdf:langString Michael Hogan (born 1943 in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American author of twenty-seven books, including two collections of short stories, eight books of poetry, selected essays on teaching in Latin America, two novels, the critically acclaimed Abraham Lincoln and Mexico, and the best-selling Irish Soldiers of Mexico, a history of the Irish battalion in Mexico which formed the basis for an MGM movie starring Tom Berenger. He received his B.A. and MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona and holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Guadalajara and the Institute of Advanced Studies. Dr. Hogan was the recipient of a PEN Award, two Pushcart Prizes, an National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Benjamin Franklin Award and the gold medal of the Mexican Geographical Society. His work has appeared in many journals such as The Paris Review, The Harvard Review, Z-Magazine, Political Affairs and the Monthly Review. Besides being a writer, poet and historian, Dr. Hogan is also the former director of Latin American initiatives for the College Board, and a special consultant to the U.S. Department of State's Office of Overseas Schools. Hogan has worked as an Humanities Department Head for fourteen years in American schools abroad and as a professor of international relations at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara. He has given workshops and presentations at conferences in the United States, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. He currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico with the textile artist Lucinda Mayo, and their dog, Molly Malone.