Mike Finley

Mike Finley (4 July 1950 – 10 August 2020) was a writer, poet, and videographer from Youngstown, Ohio.

Publications

Why Teams Don't Work, Robbins and Finley's first collaboration, was named "Best Management Book, The Americas, 1995" by the Booz Allen Hamilton/Financial Times Global Business Book Awards. It was published in a second edition, titled The New Why Teams Don't Work, by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2000.

In addition, Finley is author of a business/technology book of his own, Techno-Crazed (Peterson's, 1996).

Finley is a Pushcart Prize author, with work appearing in the 1985 Pushcart Prize Anthology.

He has authored over 160 books in all, about one hundred of them in the areas of poetry, stories and creative nonfiction, mostly from Kraken Press, and most available for free download at http://issuu.com/mike_finley. Titles include:

  • Instructions for Falling, Selected Works, 2018
  • Yukon Gold: Poemes de Terre, Selected Works, 1970-2010
  • Don’t Be Like The Moon, 2014
  • Looking for China, Selected Works, 1967-1987
  • Seventy Years Before the Plough, 2002

Finley was co-editor with St. Paul master bread baker Danny Klecko of LIEF Magazine, an online journal of arts running from 2010 to 2015 and dedicated to bright messages. Finley has collaborated on three print volumes with Klecko: Out for a Lark (2013), The Bluebeard of Happiness (2013) and A Pox on Your Blessings (2013).

Finley was a video maker, with over 100 short films.

Prizes
  • Winner, the KPV Kerouac Award, 2011
  • Finley's journalism, criticism, and other work appeared in Rolling Stone, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly, Paris Review, Success Magazine and Guideposts.
  • He was awarded a Wisconsin State Arts Fellowship for fiction in 1985.
  • In 2010 he published Zombie Girl, a novella about the death of his daughter Daniele Finley.

Finley managed Robots & Pirates, a small foundation providing services to young people in trouble in Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Finley lived in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2017 he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He died at his home on August 10, 2020.[1]

gollark: If they run that whole cycle fast enough it'll average out as a reasonable situation!
gollark: Outside of high-level stuff (GCSE *maybe*, probably A-level) I think it's *mostly* irrelevant if you take a few weeks off.
gollark: I mean, you can socialize at school, which is important, but you can do that anyway.
gollark: It annoys me that the government goes on about how amazingly important it is and how it would be unethical to make people not go to school for a bit.
gollark: Probably people with compromised immune systems or something should avoid school.

References
  1. Mike Finley, St. Paul poet who also wrote stories, creative nonfiction, dies at age 70
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