MICHAEL LOYD GRAY is the author of eight books of fiction and more than fifty published short stories. His work has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The Brussels Review, Amsterdam Review, La Piccioletta Barca, Arkansas Review, and Literally Stories.

His recent novellas include Busted Flat (2024), winner of a Literary Titan Gold Award, and Donovan’s Revolution (2024), which received the International Impact Award for Contemporary Fiction, the Book Excellence Award for Historical Fiction, and a second Literary Titan Gold Award. His earlier novel Well Deserved won the 2008 Sol Books Prose Series Prize, and Not Famous Anymore received a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation.

Gray earned an MFA in English from Western Michigan University, where he studied with MacArthur Fellow Stuart Dybek and served as a fiction editor for Third Coast. He is a member of the Society of Midland Authors and a former newspaper staff writer in Arizona and Illinois.