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Michael P. O'Connor, B.A., B.A.(Hons.), M.M.S.

Michael O’Connor was born in London in 1953, and moved to Gillingham when he was 21. He currently lives in Chatham. He has degrees in English and American Literature from the University of Kent and in Humanities from the Open University, as well as being a Graduate Member of the Institute of Management Services. Most of his professional career was spent working in local and national government, but in 2005, he took early retirement from the civil service to concentrate on his writing.

His short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous UK/North American print and online magazines including All Hallows, BAD Press, Bloodletters, Book of the Dead, Connections, Crystal, Delivered, Dementia 13, Doppelganger Broadsheet, The Dragon Chronicle, The Dream Zone, Electric Acorn, Fire, Footsteps, Gateway Monthly, Gentle Reader, The Heliograph, Kimota, Lateral Moves, Lost In The Dark, The Magpie's Nest, Mensa Magazine Short Story Supplement, Nasty Piece of Work, The New Cauldron, Omega, Peep Show, Pendragon, Pennine Ink, Revelation, Roadworks, Sepia, Sierra Heaven, Strix, The Errorist, The Writers’ Cauldron, Thirteen, Threads, Twa Dugs, Xenos , and Zest. One story appeared in his former writers’ group anthology Gravity’s Angels, and another received an Honourable Mention in the tenth annual edition of the international publication Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Others have been successful in the 1998 Department for Education Cancer Research Campaign competition (First Prize) and the Camberley Writers' Circle 1998 Competition, as well as in the 1997, 1998 and 2001 Lewis Wright Competitions and the 1996 Redcar Writers' Competition. One of his stories and two of his poems were short-listed in Writers’ News Magazine Competitions.

He wrote an article on Dickens for the 2003 Urban Fox Press book The Medway Scene, and contributed four stories to its sequel New Art From North Kent as well as two stories and two poems in their later anthology The Arts In Medway. Urban Fox also published a book of his stories under the title Where Do They All Belong? He has had several articles on popular culture published in a local magazine, in addition to having written literary essays and numerous book reviews for The Journal of the Lewis Carroll Society and The Baum Bugle (Journal of the International Wizard of Oz Club). In early 2006, he was asked to join the Editorial Board of the Lewis Carroll Society, a role that he alternates with his work for the Medway Delta Press.

Michael O’Connor – Photo: Bill Lewis