Michael Frederick Geisser began writing in graduate school while working toward an advanced degree in Normative Political Theory in the 1990’s. Armed with another degree in Civil Engineering, he built a career designing and overseeing cleanup of hazardous waste sites in RI and MA. While building his business, he wrote and studied writing at numerous workshops at Grubb Street in Boston and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. His literary career was shaken around 2004, when he was diagnosed with Primary Lateral Sclerosis (slow ALS). Since then, he has published several commentaries in the Providence Journal, and had the following stories published in literary journals: Journal of Microliterature, “Marjorie’s Wake”; Monkeybicycle, “Child Bomber”; Grub Street Daily, “Epiphany”; Flash Fiction Magazine, “Flowers”; Sliver of Stone, “A Cappella Suits You”; Intima, “Night Trip”; and HOPE-an ARIA Anthology (2020), “Leonard’s World.” He is presently in the editing stages of a book-length memoir titled, ADJUSTMENTS: A Memoir of Disease and Enlightenment. He lives on the easterly bank of a broad tidal river in Rhode Island with his wife and two dogs, where they all swim, canoe, sail, and drink in the sunsets.
