Born and raised in the U.S. Midwest, Michael Schulze earned an MA in English and moved to Boston, where he played rock and roll in clubs. At this time he began expanding his first novel, Love Song (available on Kindle), which he wrote on the second floor of the Shakespeare bookstore in Paris. Later he received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and ITT (via the Fulbright program), both of which helped him write early drafts of his second novel, The Fictionalizer. He published his third novel, Intelligence Without Thumbs, in 2024. Schulze served for many years as Vice President of Editorial Services for the H.W. Wilson publishing company, where he managed about 200 people in New York and Dublin. He also helped launch the business magazine World Tour, served as Senior Editor for Robb Report, and taught many young writers.