Michael Amram

Michael P. Amram has published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoirs. His political memoir Ten Years and Change: A Liberal Boyhood in Minnesota (Calumet Editions, 2017) was nominated for the Minnesota book award. Amram’s other memoirs included his first book, Would God Move a Ping-Pong Table? (Loft Press, 2005) and a collection of short stories, Finding Me – and Them: Stories of Assimilation(WestBow Press, 2017). Amram’s nonfiction includes To the Front of the Bus: Movement Toward a Fair Democracy (Calumet, 2019) and Vote for America: A Common Guide to Electorates (Calumet, 2020). His poetry publications include Scenes the Writer Shows (Trafford Publishing, 2013, under the pseudonym, M.B. Moshe),When Monkeys Feel Rhythms (Trafford Publishing, 2014), and Poems from Captain Salty’s Crumbles of Piecemeal Pie (Trafford Publishing, 2015). His fiction includes The Orthodoxy of Arrogance Revised Edition (Trafford Publishing, 2013, under the pseudonym, M.B. Moshe), and Agents of Orange (Authors Press, 2019).

Amram was an avid reader of political and historical books. His fiction was often based loosely on politics of the past, present, or future. He was a frequent contributor to twitter, commenting on today’s and yesterday’s politics, while also using it as a platform for his books. Amram lived with the love of his life, Deborah Amram, and wrote from his home office in St. Louis Park, MN, until his death in July of 2022.

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