Michael Milligan has worked as a construction laborer, migrant fruit and grape picker, homestead farmer, commercial arts production manager and a sighted guide for the blind. Also a musician/composer, artist and writer. He took his MFA in Creative Writing at Bennington College (thereby joining the teeming mass of writers with degrees of dubious cachet), co-founded Poetry Oasis Worcester and was privileged to be an editor with Diner. His poetry book reviews, fiction and poems have appeared in Agni, Diner, The New Orleans Review, The Valparaiso Review, Chaffin Journal, Blue Earth Review, Illuminations and others. He is the author of Unless I Came Back to Tell You, Kelsay Books 2021 and Failure of Flight, ICOE Press, 2026.