Michael James Grant was born in Ft. Fairfield, Maine, in 1964, where his parents owned and ran a large farm. At the start of the 70's, Grant's family moved to southern Maine where he spent his youth on the white powdered sands of Ogunquit Beach, and then graduated the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988.

Grant's passion for writing started at a young age when he wrote and illustrated a children's book, The Tails of Two Dragons, in seventh grade. The Tails of Two Dragons never made it to the New York Times bestseller list, nor did it make it out of Wells Junior High School, but what it did do was spark a desire in Grant to transform his stories to written words.

In 1999, Grant started out on a two and a half month journey across North America in a 1971 Winnebago – his final destination, San Francisco, California. Although his writings are always part of his life, Grant began a mission to work and set himself up in order to eventually focus entirely on his writing.

Then, in 2004, Grant's desire to see at least one of his many works in print, pushed him forward and his first novel, The Reunion, was published. The Reunion, a mystery about a man's dangerous journey to expose the truth about his hometown murders and how those secrets and deceptions threaten his life at every turn, was an instant hit.

It was during that year, Grant decided to take a sabbatical on the East Coast and do something he had not done since childhood, spend the summer on the beach, but this time in Provincetown, Massachusetts. While on sabbatical, Grant wrote his next novel, Black Flash, which was released in July 2005.

Since 1989 Grant spends most of his free time traveling around the country following his second passion – softball. With the exception of five years, three for traveling the United States, and two for a knee surgery, he has participated at 11 Softball World Series. "This year's the year we win it all," Grant proclaims.