Guista, Michael

Michael Guista holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, as well as a master's degree in psychology. His work has appeared in American Short Fiction, the North American Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, and other literary journals. Brain Work was selected by Charles Baxter as the winner of the 2004 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for fiction, awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. A recipient of a fellowship from the California Arts Council, Guista teaches at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California.