Michael Wurth

Michael Wurth was born in Enid, Oklahoma and grew up in Mississippi, Alaska, Texas, and California. He received a BA in English Languages and Literatures from Wright State University, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, where his translation of Rilke's Sonnets To Orpheus won the Tutungi Prize for Best Master's Thesis of 1992. He has worked as a stockbroker in Texas and New York City, and briefly ran an English school in Caracas, Venezuela. He lives between Honolulu and Los Angeles.