Michael Sean Comerford

Michael Sean Comerford toured almost 100 countries, swam the headwaters of the Nile, fought off a hippo attack, and toured ecological disaster areas in the Amazon rainforest.

He hitchhiked across America, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. He rode freight trains and rounded-up cattle out West; studied Buddhism in the Himalayas; and won a heavyweight boxing championship in Cork, Ireland.

He worked with newspapers both here and abroad, including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Reflejos, Barrington Press, Elgin Courier-News, Naperville City Star, Budapest Sun, Budapest Business Journal, and the Moscow Times.

He holds a M.S.J. from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism; a B.A. from Marquette University; junior year at University of College Cork, Ireland; a business journalism fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park; and a Backpack Video Storyteller certification from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Comerford lives on Marco Island, Florida to be close to his parents while he writes his new climate book. His teenage daughter, Grace Comerford, is a Regents and Chancellor’s scholar in California. She’s the author of five books including a climate change book for kids Perry & Friends and a recent release of How to Change the World: 101 Ways to Make an Impact as a Teen. Her podcast GraceGoneGreen is on her website.

Writing American OZ, Beast of Main Street and this upcoming The Story Cycle climate book changed the way he sees everything . . .

Here's to good luck!