Michael J. Morris Zamora was born in Puerto Rico to a South Carolinian father and a Puerto Rican mother. Mostly self-taught, he began creating art at the age of ten, and by fourteen, was painting in oil and acrylic mediums with a tendency toward abstract expressionism.

Michael is a chemist, a film actor, a writer, a poet, and a drummer/musician. In 1972 he published some of his first poems and stories. In 1980 he published his poetry book, Telarañas (translated, Cobwebs).

He taught elementary art and later studied art at the San Juan Art Students League under the Artist Professors Rafael Rivera Ortiz (drawing and painting), and Hiram Rosado Poupart (ceramics).

Michael is a Certified Artisan in Puerto Rico, in wood carving and sculpting, harking back to childhood interests: iron sculpting, wood carving, miniature buildings installations, and jewelry-making from natural seeds and seashells.

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