Michael Merriam (edit name/settings)

Michael Merriam was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1965. He spent most of his life in west-central Oklahoma and north Texas before moving to Minnesota in 1999.

Like most writers, Michael has done a variety of odd jobs over the years: actor, poet, late night disc jockey, short order cook, bassist in a rock-a-billy band, and booking agent for a puppet troupe. Michael is legally blind due to retinitis pigmentosa, and started writing seriously in 2003. Since then he has published over 70 pieces of short fiction, two novella, edited an anthology, and his first novel is set to be released in 2011 by Carina Press.

Michael is an Assistant Organizer and Convention Liaison for the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers, as well as a member of The Outer Alliance, The Science Fiction Poetry Association, The SteamPunk Artists and Writers Guild, and is a former member of The Online Writing Workshop.

Michael lives in Hopkins, Minnesota, with his wife and an ordained cat.