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 a novel with Carina Press, over 80 pieces of short fiction, three novellas, and edited two anthologies.
Michael is Co-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 and Maine Coon kitten.
