Michael Loyd Gray is an invited member of the Society of Midland Authors and has published six novels and more than forty short stories. He earned an MFA from Western Michigan University, a bachelor's from the University of Illinois, and has taught at universities and colleges. Gray lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he collects electric guitars, roots for the Chicago Bears, and tries to keep up with two cats, Suzie Lucifer and Yoda Lucifer.