About Michael R. Schrimper

Michael R. Schrimper is an American writer, literary scholar, and lecturer based in Utah.

He is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, in partnership with the Division of Continuing Education, where he teaches literature and writing courses on rural American voices, faith and spirituality, and Indigenous expression.

His scholarly and creative work moves between academic and literary contexts. He earned his Ph.D. in English from the University of Colorado Boulder, where his dissertation, “Exceeding Enclosure: Indigenous Modernisms and U.S. National Parks,” examined how Indigenous peoples use national parks both spatially and imaginatively to sustain continuities of place-based community and to develop forms of tribal expression within and against those spaces. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and departmental grants and has appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature, Arizona Quarterly, and Modern Language Studies.

He holds an MFA in Fiction from Emerson College. His fiction often focuses on family, silence, and emotional inheritance across rural American landscapes. His short stories have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Joyland, Willow Springs, and the minnesota review, and one story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

He is currently at work on fiction and scholarly projects.

Pushcart Prize Nominee
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar
Ph.D. · University of Colorado Boulder
MFA · Emerson College