Michael J. Scott is a Christ-following husband, father of three, preacher, teacher, poet, playwright and writer of fiction told from a Christian worldview. He was born in 1969 in Anaheim, California, but only remembers growing up in Upstate New York since the age of two. He graduated cum laude from Eastern Christian College in Bel Air, Maryland in 1992, and has served churches in Ohio, Indiana, and New York.

He enjoys writing, reading, discussing politics and religion, teaching, singing, martial arts, fencing, acting, cooking and shooting pool. He currently lives with his family outside of Rochester, New York.