Michael Kazepis has lived between Europe and the United States, having worked as a tradesman, tour guide, retail slave, delivery driver, bartender, teletext operator, hostel receptionist, and nightwatchman. He is an editor and typesetter, and the author of the books Long Lost Dog Of It and Gravity. His work on Veterans: Faces of World War II has been featured in The New Yorker and Vocativ. In 2014, he launched King Shot Press, a micropublisher of radical books. He lives in Portland, Oregon.