Michael Mack

Award-winning poet, playwright, and performer Michael Mack is best known for his autobiographical solo plays Hearing Voices, Speaking in Tongues, about his mother's recovery from schizophrenia, and Conversations with My Molester: A Journey of Faith, about the spirituality of trauma.

Mack graduated from the Writing Program at MIT with a concentration in poetry. His work has aired on NPR and has been published in America, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Beloit Poetry Journal, and twice has been anthologized in Best Catholic Writing. Awards include First Prize in the Writers Circle National Poetry Competition, Best Script at NYC's Midtown International Theatre Festival, and two Fellowships in Dramatic Writing from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the state's most prestigious and competitive individual arts grant.

Mack has performed at the US Library of Congress, Yale University, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Austin International Poetry Festival, Off-Off-Broadway at the Times Square Arts Center, and at the FBI's 32nd Annual Hostage Negotiation Seminar. He has also performed at scores of venues for consumers and providers of mental health services, including McLean Psychiatric Hospital, the national conference of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), and for faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School.