Michael Gouda was born in London, England.
He went to Bristol University, obtained a respectable degree and took up teaching in the Worcestershire town of Evesham.
He took early retirement to a limestone Cotswold cottage, where he lived with a series of neurotic collie dogs, a domineering cat, and a determination to write. Since then he has written over one hundred and fifty short stories and published longer works with Dreamspinner Press and M. L. R. Press.
Unfortunately an attack of Polymyalgia rheumatica, a type of chronic inflammation of the muscles, meant he had to go into a home from which he still writes and publishes his LGBT stories.
He likes to introduce incidents from his own deplorable past into his stories of crime and misadventure. Being a romantic at heart, he rarely allows a tragic ending, however downbeat may be the indications in between.
You can contact him at michael@tanyardbank. plus. com