Lythgoe is an Air Force vet with an MFA from Bennington College. Mike was born in Evansville, Indiana, schooled at Saint Louis University, and earned an MA at The University of Notre Dame.He has lived in Miami, London, Washington, DC, Madrid, & Syracuse, NY, Saigon, Key West, Izmir, Turkey.
He writes now in Aiken, SC. He was a featured reader at the SC Humanities festival in April 2018.
His recent credits include: SixFold, Petigru Review, Spillway, Cairn, Innisfree Poetry, Kakalak, Windhover, BLUE STREAK (a journal of military poetry), The Rockhurst Review and Pea River Journal (The Remaking of the Moby Dick Project). Mike teaches at USCA for The Lifelong Learning program.He was an associate editor for Windhover. He offered a poetry workshop at Myrtle Beach for the SCWW conference in Oct. He was a featured reader at the CCL conference at Lookout Mountain in April 2017. Mike retired as an Air Force Officer. He served several tours in The Defense Intelligence Agency.