Forfatter og forlægger Michael Ford

er født i Stockholm i 1950. 

Han har skrevet skønlitteratur og dramatik i mere end 35 år. Har været underviser og teaterdirektør i Sverige, skoleleder og underviser i Danmark.

Har boet i Sverige, Australien og Libanon. Opvokset og uddannet i Danmark (mag.art. i engelsk fra Københavns/Lunds Universitet) beskæftiger andengenerationsindvandreren Michael Ford sig i sit forfatterskab med vilkårene for den fremmede i et samfund, hvor janteloven definerer menneskers skepsis over for enerens forsøg på at bidrage til fællesskabet. Michael Ford har sammen med Regitze Schmidt etableret forlaget ABZebra, der udgiver nye danske eventyr for børn og voksne. Forfatterhuset.com er arnestedet for sproglige udfordringer og oversættelser.

Author Michael Ford

born in Stockholm 1950

has written fiction and drama for more than 30 years in Danish, Swedish and English. With a degree in English literature from the Universities of Copenhagen and Lund he has been a teacher and a theatre manager in Sweden and a teacher and a school principal in Denmark. 

The son of a British RAF pilot (Tony Ford, DFC) and a Swedish actress (Elsy Albiin)he has lived in Australia, Lebanon and Sweden, but he was raised and educated primarily in Denmark where he now lives a stone's throw away from Hamlet's castle in Elsinore. 

The publishing house of ABZebra was founded in 2002 (by Michael Ford and Regitze Schmidt) with the purpose of publishing new Danish fairytales and adventure stories with modern themes. 

Also, with the purpose of being a publishing house, which thematically continues the famous Danish tradition of storytelling – Hans Christian Andersen being the most famous of all such writers – and exclusively publishing books in this genre.