Mike Alberti grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received his MFA in fiction from the University of Minnesota.
His debut collection of short stories, Some People Let You Down, was awarded the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Short Fiction in 2020. His stories have appeared in Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, The Florida Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, One Story, and elsewhere.
Mike has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Camargo Foundation, the James Merrill House, the Jentel Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the MacDowell Colony.
He lives in Minneapolis, where he works as the Executive Director for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.