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Michael Stockham

Michael Stockham has worked as a big-firm lawyer for over twenty years after receiving his law degree from Cornell Law School. He’s a sought-after litigator and speaker.

Confessions of an Accidental Lawyer is Michael Stockham’s first novel. It was an Award-Winning Finalist in both the Mystery/Suspense: Police Procedural and Thriller: Legal categories of the American Fiction Awards in 2022. It has also won a 2022 Literary Titan Silver Book Award, a 2022 Firebird Book Award in the Legal Thriller category, a 2022 American Writing Awards Finalist in the Fiction-Mystery/Suspense category, and a 2022 International Impact Book Award in the Memoir category, a 2022 Maincrest Media Award in the Thriller category, a 2022 Clue Book Award, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs), recognizing emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries, and five 2022 Outstanding Creator Awards in the following categories: Literary & Contemporary Fiction (1st Place), Parenting and Family (1st Place), and Thriller (2nd Place), and Honorable Mentions for “Best Character” (Daniel Simmons and Emmett Kendrick), and “Best Villain” (Nurse Hatcher).

A life-long lover of books, Michael received two degrees in creative writing: a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Arts from Texas A&M University. His writing has appeared in The Writer’s Forum, The Berkeley Fiction Review, and Cornell Law Review, among others. His short story, Wire Horses, received the Frank Waters’ Southwest Writing Award, judged by Rudolfo Anaya, John Nichols, and Vine Deloria, Jr., and he was a semifinalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society Award.

Blessed by two grown daughters who are Clemson University Tigers, Michael lives in Dallas with his wife of twenty-four years, Kiersten, along with three dogs and two potbelly pigs.

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