Michael Noonan comes from Halifax (home of the Piece Hall), West Yorkshire. Has a background in retail, food production and office work. He has had artworks published in literary journals in the US, UK, and internationally, including After the Pause, Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Noctivigant Press, Baby Teeth Journal, the Odd Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Press Pause Press, the Hooghly Review, Last Leaves Magazine, The Concrete Desert Review, 805 Lit+Art!, Qwerty, Suspended Magazine, Full House Literary Magazine, and Spellbinder, literary and arts quarterly. He won a runners up prize for a black and white line drawing in a competition run by Arts and Illustrators Magazine in the UK.  His own painting can be seen on the cover of a volume of his short stories, entitled, SEVEN TALL TALES, that is available at Amazon.