Michael Boer

Michael Boer grew up on a family farm, playing in horse barn ruins and hiding-out in the orchard planted by his maternal grandfather and great-grandfather.

For his first four grades, he attended a one-room school. Starting in fifth grade, he rode school buses into town. In high school, a librarian and a couple of debate coaches managed to tame some of the stubborn misanthropy he had been bullied into by his neighbors. After various misadventures and a nightmarish gig soldering circuit boards for the Zenith Radio Corporation, he attended South Dakota State University, graduating with a BA in English in 1977.

He lived briefly in San Francisco and Minneapolis. He served in VISTA at the United Tribes Educational Technical Center. He moved to Seattle, where he worked for the University of Washington in various positions including editor for the Department of Special Education, technology support for the Health Sciences Library, and website manager for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Often using the pretense that he needs to “go the library,” he has traveled as far west as Honolulu, north to Reykjavík, east as far as Paris, and south to Managua, as well as to England, Wales, Ireland, Spain, Mexico, Canada (6 provinces), and 43 of the United States.

Six albums of his original music are available via: https://onewe.page.link/82KB