Michael Coffey

Since retiring from Publishers Weekly as co-editorial director in 2014, Michael Coffey has written extensively on Samuel Beckett. In addition to performance reviews in peer-reviewed Beckett journals, he has published Samuel Beckett Is Closed, an experimental work bringing Beckett into the 21st century, and Beckett's Children, a hybrid work interweaving textual analysis and memoir. He has also published three books of poems, a collection of short stories; written a book on baseball's perfect games and served as editor on The Irish in America, a companion volume to a PBS documentary marking the 150th anniversary of the worst year of the famine in Ireland. He has a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Studies from Leeds University (U.K.).