Mike Battaglia has worked as a Restaurateur, a chef, a bartender, an aircraft re-fuler, a landscape architect, an usher and popcorn popper at the cinema, a grocer, a gopher, a painter, a stock clerk, a janitor, a promotional bear for a toy store, a newspaper boy, and many other things. ...But he has always been a writer. American by birth, he is currently docked in the port of Queenstown, New Zealand, but he is a resident of the world; a nomad, travelling from adventure to mis-adventure with the sole purpose of living, and collecting stories.