Michael Molyneux was born in Preston, England in 1982. As a young man, in a small woodfire cottage on the west coast of Ireland, his uncle gave him copies of Jack Kerouac's Selected Letters, Carlos Castaneda's Teachings of Don Juan and John Muir's My First Summer In The Sierra and “widened out the boundaries of [his] being.”
A series of hiking trips around Europe cemented the belief that, as Muir had observed, “going out... was really going in.” He developed an interest in poetry and meditation and studied Philosophy at university. He had a series of short-term jobs: care worker for Alzheimer’s patients, postman, note-taker for deaf undergraduates, reader for a blind Law lecturer, book seller, pizza maker, gardener and painter.
He hitch-hiked to London to take an English-teaching course then moved to northern Spain, saved up enough money teaching to spend a year travelling around Latin America - the trip on which Letters From A Young Poet is based - before moving to Borneo to work on a teacher development project while completing the book.
He currently lives in Taganga, a small fishing village on Colombia's Caribbean coast.
A series of hiking trips around Europe cemented the belief that, as Muir had observed, “going out... was really going in.” He developed an interest in poetry and meditation and studied Philosophy at university. He had a series of short-term jobs: care worker for Alzheimer’s patients, postman, note-taker for deaf undergraduates, reader for a blind Law lecturer, book seller, pizza maker, gardener and painter.
He hitch-hiked to London to take an English-teaching course then moved to northern Spain, saved up enough money teaching to spend a year travelling around Latin America - the trip on which Letters From A Young Poet is based - before moving to Borneo to work on a teacher development project while completing the book.
He currently lives in Taganga, a small fishing village on Colombia's Caribbean coast.