Michael Durney graduated in 1975 with a B.A in English Literature from St. Francis University in Loretto, PA where he also met his wife, Linda. They have four children and eight grandchildren, and currently reside in Valdese, North Carolina and attend St. Aloysius Catholic Church. Michael is a customer loyalty software provider and marketing consultant to small businesses.

His favorite hobby of late is writing fiction—a first general audience, novel was published in 2012 titled, Daydreamer Extraordinaire. A second novel, Pearls for an Infidel, a war time thriller, was completed in 2015. Since 2015 he has written seven additional novels which can be found on Amazon or on his website: michaeladurney.com.  He loves canoeing, hiking and writing. When not writing fiction, he loves writing on the subject of Catholic Faith and counts St. Joseph among his closest friends.