Michael lives in the town of Halifax in the Pennine Hills, in West Yorkshire. He has a background in food production, retail and office work. He enjoys reading, both fiction and non-fiction, painting, going for walks in the country, watching movies and listening to Radio 4.
He has written short stories, poems, aphorisms, plays and sketches for some years now. He's had stories published in the anthology volumes, ‘Even More Tonto Tales’, and ‘Shades of Sentience’, which were published in Australia. He won second prize for an article, ‘The Craft of the Horror Movie’ in a competition run by the Trowell Writers Trust. He won a pen worth $150, in a presentation case for a poem he entered in a U.S. competition run by the Franklin Christoph pen company.
He had an article on the titanic published in a literary anthology called Watermarks, in aid of the Calder Valley Flood Relief Charity, and an article he wrote, using the pseudonym Albert Hall, about J.G. Ballard has been published on the cultural literary website www.literaryyard.com.
A book of Michael's short stories, entitled, Seven Tall Tales, has been published and is available at Amazon, as a book or on kindle. Aside from the play published by Scripts for Stage, The Town that Spoke with Forked Tongue, he has also written a comic one act play entitled, Elvis and the Psychiatrist which was shown at the Snowdance ten minute comedy festival at the Sixth Theatre in Racine, Wisconsin.
