Michael Darigan started writing as a crew cut freshman at the age of 18 in his cell block of a dorm room at Providence College. After a circuitous six year college career that included dropping out, working at a bank, traveling with no purpose through Ireland and England, a year at Oxford University, and eventually graduating from Emerson College in Boston, MA, Michael moved to San Francisco and began his life as a writer and traveler. For the next ten years that is what he did: travel and write.  Unconcerned with any career or prospect of settling down and making a name for himself, Michael was on a journey of exploration, searching his soul for who he really was, and searching the world for the illumination and inspiration new places always provide. His travels brought him to Seatlle, Spain, Colombia, Wisconsin, Mexico, Vermont, San Diego and British Columbia, Belize, Vermont and many other places. While existing in a state of near perpetual transience, Michael was always writing and living raw and in the moment, committed equally to his art as well as being a free spirit, unattached to images, material wealth or status. Michael believes the maxim written by Mark Twain: "A writer, above all things, must be a derider of shams." Michael's work follows in the vein, and like Twain, humor pervades his stories and essays along with healthy radical thoughts that encourage a deconstruction of all established truths.