Monday, April 21, 2008

Michael Gray

Michael Gray's novel Well Deserved was awarded the 2007 Sol Books Prose Series Prize (http://www.solbooks.com).
Michael Loyd Gray (MFA 1996) now lives in Champaign, Illinois; he is the winner of the 2005 Alligator Juniper Fiction Prize, the 2005 The Writers Place Award for Fiction, and has written three novels and a screenplay based on one of the novels. His novel Not Famous Anymore was awarded a grant by the Elizabeth George Foundation. His novel December’s Children was a finalist for the 2006 Sol Books Prose Series Prize, and as mentioned above, his novel Well Deserved was awarded the 2007 Sol Books Prose Series Prize. He recently completed a new novel, Blue Sparta. A lifelong Chicago Bears and Rolling Stones fan, he lives with two insolent cats, EH and Moonpie.

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