Michael Jarvis was born on an Air Force base and traveled regularly, living as a child in Alabama, Texas, Ohio, Guam, Georgia, and England. He graduated from Florida International University with degrees in Fine Arts and English, and lives in Miami.
Michael Jarvis is the author of the novels The Location Scout, The Path of the Tapir, and Field of Vision, along with a fiction trilogy, Dog-Head: Tales from the Neotropics.
For many years he worked in the film industry, scouting and managing locations for movies, television, and print campaigns.