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Michael Andrew Marsden was born in Washington D.C. in 1939.  He grew up in a blue collar family living in the shadow of the nation’s capital but from childhood he dreamed of living in the west.  The career advice from his family was – to have a secure future apply to for a job with the federal government.  So Michael applied himself at school and after graduation headed west for college bent on a job with the Forest Service.  He was highly allergic to poison ivy and didn’t know one western
tree species for another.  They were all pine trees to a boy from the land of oaks and maples.  But he was good at math and under the mentorship of his major professor he graduated from Utah State University with a degree in Statistics and Computer Science in 1963. 
He began a 30-year career with the USDA Forest Service that spring when he took a position in the newly opened Forestry Science Laboratory in Moscow, Idaho. He received his Master’s Degree in Forest Biometry from Colorado State University in 1973. During his career with the Forest Service he authored or coauthored over forty published reports and scientific papers.
Michael's career with the Forest Service took him to many interesting locations in the West. Having become infatuated with the colorful history of the area, Michael retired to north Idaho in 1993. He is married, has three children, and two grandchildren.
It was not until later in life that he realized that his mother had help finance his college education by writing children stories and selling them to magazines.  When she died he looked through her files and found that she had published fifty-five short stories. Michael compiled the stories into a book edited and published it. 
Following in his mother’s footsteps Michael has had poems published in The Poet's Voice, Voices, and Moose Bound Press. His entries in the Idaho Writers League contests include four First Places, four Second Places, three Third Places, and two First Place Honorable Mentions in just four years of competing. Michael has served in the Idaho Writers' League as the 1st Vice President for the state organization and President and Vice President of the Coeur d'Alene Chapter. 
Today he has three published novels and four more in process. His goal is to self-publish ten novels.  In addition to his novels, he has recently had poems, essays and fiction published in SpokeWrite Magazine.

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