Mike Aleman was born and raised in Chicago but moved to Powder River, Wyoming, when he was 15 years old. He embraced the people of the West and the western way of life immediately and fully, and knows his life was enriched from his experience.

His writing tutorial came from thirty years of teaching high school students the country's best literature and, of course, from reading it from an early age.

Retired, Mike continues to read and write on a daily basis, amazed at the beauty and power of both poetry and prose.