Mike Ingram is a writer, editor, podcaster, and professor.

Cover of Mike Ingram's Notes from the Road

“Notes from the Road is a book about hunger, about longing, about loss, but more than that, it is a book that speaks very eloquently to what it is to be American—which is to say: lonely—and the desire of so many to vanish, to disappear. A beautiful and moving work.”

—Amy Butcher, author of Mothertrucker

“Whether he’s counting the days since his last cigarette, engaged in a ‘complicated relationship with the check engine light,’ or trying to figure out if a stranger’s nose stud is actually just a trick of the light, Ingram’s voice is great company at every turn, full of wry, unassuming profundity, possessed of cadences utterly his own.”

—Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

Notes from the Road available now from Awst Press, bookshop.org, Amazon, or your local bookseller.

Mike Ingram’s stories, essays, and journalism have appeared in a number of publications, including PHOEBE, The North American Review, The Smart Set, and Medium’s Human Parts. His first book of creative nonfiction, Notes from the Road, was published by Awst Press in March 2022. His next, Personal Effects, is forthcoming from Autofocus Books.

Mike is one of the founding editors of Barrelhouse, a literary magazine and small press that hosts an annual writing conference each spring in D.C. and Writer Camp each summer just outside State College, PA. He is also a professor of instruction at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he teaches courses in creative writing, editing and publishing, and first-year writing.

Recently, he’s been writing a series of brief essays about teaching, seen through the lens of movie and TV portrayals of creative writing classrooms, which you can read via Substack.