Michael Wolfe (born 3 April 1945) is an American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation. He is a frequent lecturer on Islamic issues at universities across the United States including Harvard, Georgetown, Stanford, SUNY Buffalo, and Princeton. He holds a degree in Classics from Wesleyan University.
Wolfe's first works on Islam were a pair of books from Grove Press on the pilgrimage to Mecca: The Hadj (1993), a first-person travel account, and One Thousand Roads to Mecca (1997), an anthology of 10 centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Shortly after 11 September 2001, he edited a collection of essays by American Muslims called Taking Back Islam: American Muslims Reclaim Their Faith. Taking Back Islam won the 2003 annual Wilbur Award for "Best Book of the year on a Religious Theme". In 2010, Blue Press Books published a chapbook of poems by Wolfe entitled Paradise: Reading Notes. He recently completed a fourth volume of poetry, entitled Digging Up Russia: Selected Poems, 1968-2010.
Wolfe is currently working on two novels: one set in contemporary California, entitled Upriver, and one set in Paris during World War II. He has also recently translated and written a brief commentary for a collection of verse from the Greek Anthology, entitled The Last Word: Selected Ancient Greek Epitaphs." This collection will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2012, with an Introduction by Richard P. Martin.
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