PF Potvin is not a household appliance. He’s a Michigan writer, teacher, and runner whose work has appeared in Boston Review, PBS NewsHour, PANK, Short Édition, MiPOesias, Passages North, Sentence, Sleeping Fish, Redivider, An Introduction to the Prose Poem Anthology, Poets & Artists magazine, and elsewhere.

Potvin is the author of the prose poetry book The Attention Lesson (No Tell Books). He served on the staff of the literary journal Drunken Boat and reviewed for ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. He’s also been a visiting writer at Emory University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Potvin is currently a Teaching Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, focusing on multimodal and community-based writing. Potvin chairs the campus Writing Awards and serves as faculty advisor for the Lyceum literary journal.

He holds an MFA from Bennington College where he received the Jane Kenyon Poetry Scholarship. He’s also received residency scholarships from the Vermont Studio Center and Casa Libre en la Solana.

Potvin’s running highlights include first place finishes in the Silverlake 50 km, Elkhorn 50 mile, Croom Trail 50 km, Croom Trail 50 mile, John Holmes 50 km, McNaughton Park 50 mile, Superior Trail 50 km, Dances with Dirt 50 km, Jay Peak Marathon, Pinckney Trail Marathon, and the X-Country Marathon. He finished 7th overall at the USA Track & Field National 50K Trail Championship and 5th overall in the 1 mile USA Track and Field Masters Road Championship.

He lives near Ann Arbor, MI. Contact him at pfpotvin at gmail dot com.