Michael was born in 1986 in Texas to middle-class parents who instilled the idea that formal education and financial and career success were positively correlated. He spent much of his High School years screwing around, like any other teenager in the early 2000s. Then, Michael went to Army Basic Training when he was 17, between his Jr. and Sr. years of High School. He returned focused and fully intent on completing as much school as possible. During Michael’s undergraduate and graduate careers, he studied Experimental Psychology as the first BA – Ph.D. track student at The University of Texas at Arlington. During this time, Michael studied psychology, psychometrics, statistics, philosophy, and religion. He wrote his first short book in 2010
While pursuing a successful career as a New York- and then Los Angeles-based lawyer, David Armillei began a second career as a producer of female-driven documentary films. After these independent films won multiple awards (including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), David decided to follow his own muse and simultaneously pursue yet another path--writer.
GROWING UP THE ANTICHRIST, his first book, is the result. This experimental, poetic memoir is a collection of 40 pieces that reflect his experience coming of age as a perennial outsider in Franklin, Tennessee, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Palo Alto, California. Driven by a complex, but enduring, hope and balancing a respect for and distaste of the past, the book goes beyo
