Mike Ervin is a writer and disability rights activist living in Chicago. His play The History of Bowling was produced at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago in 1999 and 2000, by the Know Theater Tribe in Cincinnati in 2001, by  Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis in 2002 and by Circle Theater in Omaha in 2004. He also received a 2001 playwright's fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. His other theater productions include The Plucky and Spunky Show, which he co-wrote with Susan Nussbaum. It was originally produced at the Remains Theatre in Chicago (1990).

By day he is a free-lance journalist and has published over 1,000 articles and essays - mostly on disability topics - in more than 40 newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald and the Progressive. He is also producer of The Strength Coach, a nationally-syndicated radio talk show.

Mike is a founding member of the Chicago chapter of the direct action disability rights organization ADAPT. He is proud to have been arrested over a dozen times for civil disobedience. Mike is also founder of Jerry's Orphans, which organizes annual protests against the Jerry Lewis telethon. His play The History of Bowling appears in Beyond Victims and Villains:  Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights, V.A. Lewis, ed.Theatre Communications Group, 2005.