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About Michael Brownstein

Michael Brownstein is the author of three novels, Country Cousins, Self-Reliance, and The Touch, as well as several collections of stories and poetry. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and other magazines. He taught at the University of Colorado, Naropa Institute, and Columbia University. In recent years, he has become involved in the worldwide anti-globalization movement, traveling to Ecuador where he observed first-hand the petroleum industry's destruction of the environment and indigenous cultures. He lives in New York City.