M. Kei is an award-winning poet who lives on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. He served his apprenticeship aboard a skipjack, a traditional wooden sailboat used to fish for oysters, and is now a crewman aboard a square-rigged tall ship. He is the editor of the Atlas Poetica : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Modern English Tanka and the editor-in-chief of the anthology series Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka. His first collection was Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay (2007) and his second is Slow Motion : Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack (2008). He is also the editor of the ground-breaking anthology Fire Pearls : Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart. Over 1400 of his tanka have been published in ten countries and five languages.

"Pirates of the Narrow Seas was a dashing good tale full of adventure and mayhem"~Sage Whistler, author of 'Broken'

Pirates of the Narrow Seas 1 : The Sallee Rovers -- Winner of a Sweet Revolution Award for 'best full cast'

Pirates of the Narrow Seas 2 : Men of Honor

Pirates of the Narrow Seas 3 : Iron Men

Pirates of the Narrow Seas 4 : Heart of Oak

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He writes the Pirates of the Narrow Seas novels online for fun. Finding the software here awkward, he has posted the revisions to their own site NarrowSeas.blogspot.com.