Michael Croley

Biography

Michael Croley is the author of Any Other Place: Stories (Blair, 2019), winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His reporting, essays, and stories have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Esquire, the New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Golfer’s Journal, Golf Digest, the Paris Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Denison University.

Michael Croley by Mary Ellen Lavelle
Mary Ellen Lavelle

See Work

ON BECOMING / Spring 2024

In the Wake

By Michael Croley ,  Illustrations by Tim Bouckley
Illustration by Tim Bouckley
PROFILES / Summer 2017

Redefining the Green

By Michael Croley ,  Illustration by Bill Zindel

Still, building the Loop seemed a risk. The design was hard enough to execute, but then once the course was built there was—and still is—a fear that one routing of the course might surpass another in quality or popularity, in effect...

Illustration by Bill Zindel
CRITICISM / Spring 2014

Starting Over

By Michael Croley
Thelonious Monk by Robin Kelley