Spence, Michael

Michael Spence served four years as a naval officer aboard the USS John F. Kennedy after graduating with a degree in creative writing from the University of Washington in 1974. Spence lives in Tukwila, Wash., and has spent the last 25 years as a public-transit bus driver in the Seattle area. He has contributed poems to more than a dozen journals and an anthology of northwestern poets. Spence's previous collections include The Spine and Adam Chooses.