Michael Loyd GrayMichael Loyd Gray is the author of ten published books of fiction and more than sixty published stories. His novella Busted Flat, winner of a Literary Titan Gold Award and finalist for an Eric Hoffer Award, was released in October 2024. Gray's novell Donovan's Revolution, winner of a 2025 International Impact Award for Contemporary Fiction, a Literary Titan Gold Award, and a 2025 Book Excellence Award for Historical Fiction, was released in June 2024. Released in February 2025 -- Night Hawks, a novella. His novel The Armageddon Two-Step, winner of a Book Excellence Award, was released in December 2019. Well Deserved won the 2008 Sol Books Prose Series Prize and Not Famous Anymore garnered a support grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation in 2009. Released in March 2026, The Writer in Residence, a novel.Gray is the winner of the 2005 Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize and 2005 The Writers Place Award for Fiction. He earned his MFA from Western Michigan University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois. Gray was born in Arkansas, grew up in Illinois, and now lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with three cats and a lot of electric guitars. Read More Read Less