Michael Coffey received his B.A. in English at the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. from Leeds University in Anglo-Irish Literature. Former co-editorial director at Publishers Weekly, he has published three books of poems, a collection of short stories, a book about baseball’s perfect games, and co-edited a book about Irish immigration to America.

SAMUEL BECKETT IS CLOSED Michael Coffey Short fiction interwoven with a meditation on the transformative power of the undying work of Samuel Beckett, Michael Coffey’s Samuel Beckett Is Closed is part memoir, part criticism, and part poetry.More