Discipline: Literature – poetry

Michael Wolfe

Discipline: Literature – poetry
MacDowell Fellowships: 1968
Michael Wolfe is an American poet, author, and the president and co-executive producer of Unity Productions Foundation. Born to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Wolfe converted to Islam and has been a frequent lecturer on Islamic issues at universities across the United States, including Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, SUNY Buffalo, and Princeton. He holds a degree in the classics from Wesleyan University. Wolfe taught writing and English at Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover academies, the California State Summer School for the Arts, and the University of California, Santa Cruz.