Michael Loyd Gray is the author of eight 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 novella 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. 

     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. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with three cats and a lot of electric guitars.