Sixfold

Michael Avery (michaelavery)

Having spent most of my life telling stories in courtrooms, I experienced a growing desire to share them with a wider audience. I’d written several books for lawyers that did well, but I wasn’t satisfied with my attempts to reach the general public through the non-fiction books that I published through university presses. In 1915, I enrolled in the MFA writing program at Bennington College and graduated in January 2017. The experience was transformative. It led to a greater interest in writing fiction, and ultimately to my first short story. I have published six books. Two were of general interest: We Dissent: Talking Back to the Rehnquist Court (NYU Press, 2009) and The Federalist Society: How Conservatives Took the Law Back from Liberals (Vanderbilt, 2013). Fou