Michael Snyder

Dr. Michael Snyder, a biographer and literary historian, is the author of JAMES PURDY: LIFE OF A CONTRARIAN WRITER (Oxford University Press), which has been praised by Fran Lebowitz, Brad Gooch, and Brian Evenson; JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS: LIFE OF AN OSAGE WRITER (University of Oklahoma Press), which was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in non-fiction, and OUR OSAGE HILLS: TOWARD AN OSAGE ECOLOGY AND TRIBALOGRAPHY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (Lehigh University Press/Rowman & Littlefield). An expert on gay literature and Native writers, Snyder is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. Snyder, who identifies as Midwestern and Gen X, is writing a novel.