Recipient of Multiple NEA GrantsRecipient of Multiple Writing Awards including the World's Best Short, Short Story ContestExtensive Teaching and Publishing Career in Fiction, Non-fiction, and EditingPlain Air is, in many ways, a literary homage to Sherwood Anderson's famous collection of stories Winesburg, OhioMichael Martone is an enthusiast of the Postal Service, postcards, trains, the number four, Quonset huts, and the Flyover