Michael Sharp was educated in Great Britain and the United States. His PhD is from the University of Wisconsin. He has taught in Scotland, Greece, Portugal, Nigeria and at SUNY-Binghamton, Harvard and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author of essays on poetry and fiction, he has edited the collected poems of Drummond Allison for the University or Reading Press. His own poetry has been anthologized, broadcast, and published in the literary magazines.
