Mike Aleman was raised in a Mexican American home in Chicago before moving to Powder River, Wyoming at 15. He was on his high school newspaper staff where he began to write. After graduation he joined the U.S. Navy and spent time in Kodiak, Alaska where he contributed to an idiotic mimeo-graphed newspaper called the Holiday Herald, writing a Advice to the Loveless column under the name of Mabel Aleman. He was young and foolish at the time.
Mike has been a lifelong Christian, Lutheran or Presbyterian, has taught Bible Studies, serves as usher for memorial services and celebration of life services, taught God and Christ in Poetry and a short story class called Listening for God.
He has been a member of Hamblen Park Presbyterian church in Spokane for 20 years. His poems and stories have been read over KPBX, Spokane Public Radio and have appeared in a small selection of literary journals. In 2024 he published a coming-of-age novel, Powder River 1957. Mike has married, been widowed and remarried. He has one daughter now attending school in Portland, Oregon.
