I always read the "about the author" section. Yours is too long. I'd edit it thusly:
Michael Merriam was born in Michigan and raised in Oklahoma and Texas. He now lives in Minnesota.
Michael's work can be found in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fictitious Force, From the Asylum, and The Harrow. He was nominated for the James B. Baker Award in 2007 and Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice Awards in 2006 and 2007, and he has been a semi-finalist twice in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
Michael is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network. He lives in Hopkins, Minnesota, with his wife and an ordained cat.
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Michael Merriam was born in Michigan and raised in Oklahoma and Texas. He now lives in Minnesota.
Michael's work can be found in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fictitious Force, From the Asylum, and The Harrow. He was nominated for the James B. Baker Award in 2007 and Preditors and Editors Reader's Choice Awards in 2006 and 2007, and he has been a semi-finalist twice in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
Michael is a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the Twin Cities Speculative Fiction Writers Network. He lives in Hopkins, Minnesota, with his wife and an ordained cat.
www.michaelmerriam.net.