Winner of the University of Missouri Breakthrough Book Competition, chosen by Joy Williams.

Michael McGuire is to the manner born, a dramatist with more literary class than the American theater usually expects. -Herbert Blau, author of The Impossible Theater, a Manifesto

McGuire has written a play about the legendary Golden Couple that will take you into the eye of their own hurricane-like existence. -Tammy Grimes

McGuire is a very gifted writer, the kind of which we need more. His expert handling of language, his innovative use of dramatic form, and his commitment to serious, historical issues are all in evidence. -Judith Malina, founder of The Living Theatre Michael McGuire is to the manner born, a dramatist with more literary class than the American theater usually expects. -Herbert Blau, author of The Impossible Theater, a Manifesto

McGuire has written a play about the legendary Golden Couple that will take you into the eye of their own hurricane-like existence. -Tammy Grimes

McGuire is a very gifted writer, the kind of which we need more. His expert handling of language, his innovative use of dramatic form, and his commitment to serious, historical issues are all in evidence. -Judith Malina, founder of The Living Theatre

Michael McGuire's collection of stories, The Ice Forest, was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. His stories have been published in The Paris Review, the Hudson Review, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, as well as others. McGuire's plays have been produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum of Los Angeles, among others, and were later published by Broadway Play Publishing.