Michael Boyce was born in Ottawa, grew up in New Brunswick, and lived in Toronto and Montreal for many years. When he was kicked out of high school he turned to music, literature and film as a means of education and self expression. After earning a Ph.D. in Humanities from Concordia/McGill Universities he concentrated on independent video production. Then he wrote a novel - Monkey, from Pedlar Press. Now he writes, mostly. Boyce is Irish Catholic/Scottish Presbyterian by lineage and Pagan/Taoist by nature.