Michael Kurt is an author, artist, and co-founder of Berm. From 2014 to 2021, Michael co-hosted the podcast Talking to Ghosts, which interviewed creatives about their lives and ran on a bi-weekly schedule. In 2021, Michael also self-published his first chapbook of fiction, called Heaviness Leaves The Body. After ending the Talking to Ghosts podcast, Michael and Wes went on to found Berm Magazine. In 2023, the video art piece In Distance Time Moves was selected to be shown at Moscow Contemporary, in Moscow, Idaho as part of the Timescape(s) group exhibition. In 2024, Michael’s short play Danny And Rose will be featured in the Chapel Theater Play Fest.

2024

• Danny & Rose (10-minute play, debuted as part of the Chapel Theater Play Festival)

2023

• In Distance Time Moves (Video Art, Timescape(s) Exhibit June 2023 - Sept. 2023)

• I’M WORRIED THIS WON’T MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE (Experimental Fiction, Readwritebooks Quotidian III: Repetition)

• Ryker (comic, Illustrator: Adam Markiewicz)

• Berm Issue 4 - Money (magazine, co-founded by Wesley Mueller)

• Berm Issue 3 - Ephemeral (magazine, co-founded by Wesley Mueller)

2022

• June 2022, 2022 (short story, with Illustration by Laura Helsby)

• Small Towns, Modern Loneliness (short story, with Illustration by Laura Helsby)

• Halloween (short comic, Art by Lane Lloyd, Letters by Nikki Powers, Alt. Cover by Adam Markiewicz)

• Sinkhole (short comic, with Illustrations & Lettering by Dee Noonan)

• Berm Issue 2 - Letters & Figures (magazine, co-founded by Wesley Mueller)

• Berm Issue 1 - Transitions (magazine, co-founded by Wesley Mueller)