Michael is a writer from New York City whose work has appeared in The Nation, TomDispatch, Jewish Currents, Monthly Review, and Poets Against the War (Nation Books, 2003). He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he was an editor at the Harvard Crimson, and is currently a MacCracken Fellow at New York University.

His writing has received Harvard’s James Gordon Bennett Prize and the New York Times James B. Reston Award. Michael is also a longtime activist, novelist, violinist/fiddler and photographer.