Michael Fleisher was born on 1 November 1942 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Michael was a writer, known for Shade the Changing Man (2013). Michael died on 2 February 2018 in Beaverton, Oregon, USA.
After leaving the comics field in 1991, he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan for graduate school at the University of Michigan, spending from 1994 to 1996 researching his Ph.D. thesis on commercialized cattle theft in Tanzania while living for two years near Nairobi.