Michael Lance Ritter has lived in Oklahoma, Colorado, San Francisco, the Sierra gold country and now Sonoma County, CA.
He earned a Master's degree in history at Sonoma State University and was a Fellow in the PhD history program at the University of California, San Diego. His bio includes being a screenwriter, parent, teacher, coach, author, editor and entrepreneur.
Michael is a member of the Western Writers of America,Western History Association, Robinson Jeffers Association, Association for the Study of Literature & the Environment and the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma