1. Michael Hemmingson was a novelist, short story writer, literary critic, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher, playwright, music critic and screenwriter.

1. Michael Hemmingson was a novelist, short story writer, literary critic, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher, playwright, music critic and screenwriter.
Michael Hemmingson died in Tijuana, Mexico on 9 January 2014.
Michael Hemmingson was a staff writer at the San Diego Reader from November 2004 through January 2014.
Michael Hemmingson wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film Aliens, based on a one act play.
Michael Hemmingson won the San Diego Book Awards Association's first Novel-in-Progress grant for The Rose of Heaven and SDBAA's Best Published novel for Wild Turkey.
Michael Hemmingson's media study monograph, Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series, was a 2010 finalist nominee for General Non-fiction Book.
Michael Hemmingson was selected as the toastmaster for the Death Equinox 2001 convention.
Michael Hemmingson wrote multiple auto-ethnography articles for Forum: Qualitative Research.
Michael Hemmingson was called "Raymond Carver on acid" by literary guru Larry McCaffery and "a disciple of a quick and dirty literature" by the American Book Review.
Michael Hemmingson published extensively in these areas of study, as well as critical monographs on Star Trek, Barry N Malzberg, Charles Bukowski, blogging and micro-blogging.
From April 2012 until his death, Michael Hemmingson hosted the show The Art of Dreaming on Revolution Radio at freedomslips.