Michael Davis
Michael Davis is a professional writer whose work has appeared in Descant, The San Joaquin Review, The Jabberwock Review, The Black Mountain Review, Eclipse, Cottonwood, The Mid-American Review, Full Circle, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Georgia Review, Storyglossia, The Chicago Quarterly Review, Willow Springs and, most recently, in The Normal School.
He was a William Saroyan Fellow and former fiction editor of the journal CutBank. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on three separate occasions by The Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry, and Storyglossia. His story "Gravity" won the 2008 George Garrett fiction award given out by Eastern Washington University. "The Man in Africa" was voted one of the "Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2007" and was subsequently reviewed by Xujun Eberlein for Five Star Literary Stories.
His professional qualifications include a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing, a Master of Information Sciences in information technology management, an expert TESOL certification, and an ABA paralegal certification. He is also a certified Reiki master in Usui, Tibetan, and Chikara Reiki Do systems. Michael has taught writing at universities in California, Missouri, Montana, Michigan and online for the Gotham Writers' Workshop. He is currently finishing a PhD in English and writing a novel.
Michael's book of short stories, Gravity, will be available in April 2009 from Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Latest Articles
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Keeping Projects in Sync with Strategy
Being able to articulate common values within a coherent framework is essential to the wellbeing of an organization.
Mar 15, 2009
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Best Practices for Fault Tolerant Design in IT
Two important ways an IT manager can incorporate fault tolerance into his or her organization are by building a distributed system or using mobile code.
Mar 6, 2009
- Michael Davis
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A Brief Note on Henry Fielding's Narrative Style
The dynamic relationship between the substantive and formal qualities of Henry Fielding's novel, Joseph Andrews, may inform the realism of Tom Jones.
Mar 3, 2009
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An Introduction to Intrusion Detection Systems
The first step toward ensuring the security of a network is understanding how unwanted access can be detected and prevented. This means learning about the types of IDS.
Mar 1, 2009
- Michael Davis
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Socioinguistics and Gender Performance
Many sociolinguists believe that gender is not innate. Rather, it is a socially conditioned performance based on circumstance, upbringing, and cultural expectation.
Feb 23, 2009
- Michael Davis
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Machiavelli and the Protestant Reformation
An analysis of Luther's role in the Protestant Reformation raises questions of realpolitik, religious ideology, orthodoxy, and hegemony.
Feb 23, 2009
- Michael Davis
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Policy, Standard, and Practice in IT Security
Being able to distinguish between security policies, standards, and best practices in an organization is a must for the evolving field of information security.
Feb 22, 2009
- Michael Davis
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Picking a Disaster Recovery Planning Coordinator
Since disaster can take various, often unforeseeable forms, the disaster recovery coordinator plays a key role in the continuing health and prosperity of an organization.
Feb 22, 2009
- Michael Davis
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Imaging and U.S. Air Superiority in Vietnam
In the Vietnam conflict, the U.S. discovered that the appropriation of land through air superiority relied on imaging technology to maintain a psychological offensive.
Feb 22, 2009
- Michael Davis
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Convergence in Information Technology Security
Information security systems and physical security systems are coming together to produce a new multifaceted approach to organizational risk prevention.
Feb 20, 2009
- Michael Davis
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