E. Michael Lunsford

E. Michael Lunsford is the author of a funny Middle Grade fantasy, The Audacious Adventures of Drippy the Dragon, and the three-book series of Derek Hyde's spooky misadventures: Derek Knows Spooky When He Sees It, Derek's Spooky Scavenger Hunt, and Derek and the Dead-End Maze. His book of whacky kids' poems, Sometimes I Get My Shoes on Backwards, is a winner of the 2015 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest.

His comedy Halloween play, Scary, Scary Night, was selected as a semi-finalist in the annual Playwrights First contest in New York and then as a finalist and winner of the Shawnee Original Playwright Series in March, 2015. The musical version was selected as a semi-finalist in Caryl Crane Youth Theatre's 2015 Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival in March, 2015.

Michael is also a musician, composer, inventor, entrepreneur, and chief cook & bottle washer who works with his wife and love of his life in San Carlos, California.