Michael Miller is a former entertainment journalist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of Thief After Dark (FarStarFire Press, 2002), College Town (Tebot Bach, 2010), The First Thing Mastered (Tebot Bach, 2013) and Angels in Seven (Moon Tide Press, 2016). A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he won a 2014 Orange County Press Club award for his story on poets Lee Mallory and Charles Bukowski. He earned a BA in English from UC Irvine and an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Rachanee Srisavasdi, and their daughter, Clare.