Michael Metivier is an editor, birdwatcher, lexicographer, poet, essayist, and musician living in Vermont.

Thank you for visiting my website, where I keep a running list of publications with links where applicable, as well occasionally post about birds, wildflowers, critters, weather, and whatnot.

My poems have appeared in such journals as EcoTheo Review, Crazyhorse, POETRY, jubilat, North American Review, African American Review, Kenyon Review, and Bennington Review. My essays have been published in LAAB, Northern Woodlands, Green Mountains Review, and Medicine for a Nightmare Parts 1 and 2. My essay “Hold On Magnolia” won Prairie Schooner’s 2022 Creative Nonfiction Essay Summer contest, chosen by judge Jerald Walker, and will be published in the fall of 2023.

In May, 2022 my first chapbook, Glacial, Erratic, was published by Columba as a split volume with Erín Moure.

As a musician under the name of Oweihops I have performed solo and with a band, sharing the stage with artists including Kristin Hersh, Grand Archives, Basia Bulat, Elephant Micah, Kath Bloom, and Red Heart the Ticker. An experienced editor of award-winning nonfiction, I’m proud to have worked on books including Eager by Ben Goldfarb, winner of the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; Farming While Black by James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner Leah Penniman, Pawpaw by Andrew Moore, and In Search of Mycotopia by Doug Bierend.

I am currently an editor at Merriam-Webster.

Thank you for visiting

Michael