MICHAEL H. KEW is an author and poet who first tapped his surfy writerly destiny as a California boy in the mid-1980s. His work has since been featured Earthwide in surfing magazines, travel journals, newspapers, films, websites, advertisements, and books, including January 2012's Crossings, his first collection of world travel essays.  Rainbownesia, his first Oceania volume, was published in October 2019.

In March 2020 Kew published Nectars of Sky, his premier poetry assemblage, surrealist free-verse based on his two most transformative residencies. April 2021 drew Purpledeneye, an experimental work of formulaic dream poetry; December 2022 birthed travel poesy/photoesy (Incense Gardens); May 2024 raised an East Africa travelogue (Swahilia); November 2024 brought a collection of Curry County, Ore., essays (Pineal Forests); March 2026 welcomed a Seychelles-based novella (Bridge to Eden). His latest is Xanatollu, a Micronesia travel odyssey aboard the United Airlines Island Hopper.

Constantly reading, writing, researching, and planning new works, Kew dwells and delves at Purpledeneye in the coastal mountains of southern Oregon.