About Michael K Norris

Michael K Norris is a writer of fiction and has been published in Adelaide Magazine, The Raven Review, Sky Island Journal, and elsewhere.

He has previously worked as a senior aide for a California politician, a communications manager for a San Jose nonprofit, and as a publishing industry analyst at Simba Information and Book Publishing Report - where he made regular presentations at the London Book Fair and was frequently quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other news sources.  During his tenure at Simba, he correctly predicted the stagnation of e-book adoption and spoke often of the definitive value of the printed word and of independent bookstores.

Norris is also the creator of #ThursdayTrashFlashFiction, a weekly social media writing exercise that combines his passions of reading, writing and cycling. He is also welds metal sculpture - including the typewriter seen on the Short Stories page (and his business card).

A member of South Bay Writers, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, artist Suma CM.