Michael Hogan was born in Newport, Rhode Island, of Irish parentage. His poetry has appeared in numerous periodicals including The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, The Harvard Review, and the American Poetry Review and in many anthologies: among them Sound and Sense (Harcourt Brace, 1996) and An Introduction to Literature (Little, Brown, 1987).

Hogan is recipient of numerous awards including: the Alden Dow Creativity Fellowship, the Colorado Humanities Fellowship, the Grace Stoddard Literary Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Hogan has worked with Poets In The Schools programs in Arizona, California, Utah, Montana and New Mexico, and has been a consultant on various National Endowment for the Arts programs.

For the past ten years Hogan has headed the English Department at the American School of Guadalajara, and has served as faculty advisor to the school's internationally recognized literary magazine, Sin Fronteras.

As the critic Sam Hamill notes, "Hogan is knowledgeable, yet, he wears his literacy lightly. He does what a great poet should do-- he does his homework. He brings poetry and literature within until it becomes a part of himself as he becomes a part of the culture around him. His work is remarkable for its restraint, for its even tone (an indelible Hogan trait), and for its surface simplicity combined with bite and depth."

Hogan lives in Colonia Providencia, Guadalajara, with the textile artist Lucinda Mayo and their dog, Molly Malone.