MICHAEL P. MAURER is a decorated Vietnam combat veteran and the award-winning author of the novel Perfume River Nights and two books of poetry, A Journey Through A Warrior's Soul and Thoughts from Afar.
At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the army paratroopers and served in Vietnam in 1968-69 as an infantryman with the 82nd Airborne Division.
A University of Minnesota graduate, he moved to Vietnam in 2003 and lived in Asia until 2012.
Maurer and his poetry have been featured in Vietnamese newspapers and his first collection of poetry, A Journey Through A Warrior’s Soul, was translated into Vietnamese.
His poetry and prose benefit veterans and social programs. All royalties from Perfume River Nights are dedicated to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.