He was born in 1949. Cadnum attended both University of California at Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. He earned a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship for his poetry.^{[citation needed]} He currently resides in Albany, California.^[3]

Novels edit

• Seize the Storm (2012)
• Flash (2010)
• Peril on the Sea (2009)
• The King's Arrow (2008)
• Nightsong: The Legend of Orpheus and Eurydice (2006)
• The Dragon Throne (2005)
• Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun (2004)
• Ship of Fire (2003)
• Daughter of the Wind (2002)
• The Leopard Sword (2002)
• Forbidden Forest: the story of Little John and Robin Hood (2002)
• Raven of the Waves (2001)
• Redhanded (2000)
• The Book of the Lion (2000)
• Blood Gold (2004)
• Rundown (1999)
• Heat (1998)
• In A Dark Wood (1998)
• Edge (1997)
• Zero At The Bone (1996)
• The Judas Glass (1996)
• Taking It (1995)
• Skyscape (1994)
• The Horses of the Night (1993)
• Ghostwright (1993)
• Breaking the Fall (1992)
• Saint Peter's Wolf (1992)
• Sleepwalker (1991)
• Calling Home (1991)
• Nightlight (1990)

Short fiction edit

Collections

• Can't Catch Me (2006, Tachyon Publications)
• Earthquake Murder (2018)

Stories^[4]

Poetry edit

• The Promised Rain (forthcoming)
• Kingdom (2018)
• This Early Dark (2016)
• "Day by Day" (2003)
• Illicit (chapbook, 2001)
• The Woman Who Discovered Math (chapbook, 2001)
• The Cities We Will Never See (1993)
• By Evening (1992)
• Foreign Springs (chapbook, 1988)
• Invisible Mirror (chapbook, 1987)
• Long Afternoons (1986)
• "Wrecking the Cactus" (pamphlet, 1985)
• The Morning of the Massacre, (chapbook, 1981)

• Foreign editions of Michael Cadnum's work include Danish, Persian, French, German, Italian, Spanish, among others.

• Michael Cadnum Homepage
• A poem by Michael Cadnum in InDigest