Michael Zapruder Author

Michael Zapruder is an award-winning composer, songwriter and recording artist, and a co-founder of San Francisco's Howells Transmitter arts collective and record label. His albums include 52 Songs (1999), This is a Beautiful Town (2003), New Ways of Letting Go (2006, Howells Transmitter), Dragon Chinese Cocktail Horoscope (2009, SideCho Records), and Pink Thunder (2012, Black Ocean Books, The Kora Records), a collection of free verse pop art-songs made from the poems of more than twenty contemporary American poets. He was awarded the 2013 Glasow Fellowship for music composition at California State University East Bay, where he is doing graduate work. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife and two sons.