Kirk M. Maxey was born in Kanab, Utah. One of five children born to parents who were both employed by the National Park Service, he spent his childhood in a number of different parks including Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, and Yellowstone.
Dr. Maxey trained first as an organic chemist at Colorado State University, and then as a medical doctor at the University of Michigan. He is best known as the founder of Cayman Chemical Company. He is a recognized expert in the chemistry and pharmacology of prostaglandins. His interests include paleoanthropology, climate, evolutions, creative writing, assisted reproduction, astrobiology and physics.
He identifies with Native American ancestry originating in Oklahoma, and his hobbies include raising and breeding the spotted horses typical of the Nez Perce. He also raises varieties of native corn with names such as Glass Gem and Cat’s Eye. He is the author of a number of research articles and a book of short stories.
Pig Blood and Other Stories is currently unavailable for purchase from Amazon. If you are interested in acquiring a copy of the book for a donation to CABRI, please email asmith@caymanchem.com.
Kirk M. Maxey: Blog and Website 
Please email me a copy of your publication: K.M. Maxey, K-R. Maddipati, J. Birkmeier, “Interference in Enzyme Immunoassays.” Journal of Clinical Immunoassay. (1992) 15:116-120. We are using your kits for estrogen and progesterone assays and would like to figure out the interferences. Thanks
Ma Luo
In the good old days, I would have snail mailed you a copy of the paper with a nice front-piece from the publisher. In the new era, I guess I could e-mail you a copy as you’ve suggested. But in the Open Access days of the future, I should simply post the full article here, on my blog, and you and the entire world can have access to it simultaneously. Good luck with your steroid measurements!
Dear Dr. Maxey,
My name is Marcel Llorens and I am a journalist working in a Spanish TV program about new ways of paternity and kinds of families. You can see some of our work looking for ‘Samanta Villar’ in Channel CUATRO.
We read about your case and we would like to talk with you about it, just to know your feelings when you discovered and show the people how it was. I understand maybe you have nothing more to say or you are tired about it, and I’m sorry if my contact disturbs you.
Otherwise, if you were interested in talking about it, just let me know and we check if it was posible to film an interview with you.
Thank you very much and again, sorry for any inconvenience,
Marcel Llorens
Redacción ‘Samanta’
It was good to meet you and the film crew here in Ann Arbor. I will look forward to seeing the finished product. Hopefully it will be a balanced review of the rights and needs of both donors and donor conceived, establishing the essential normalcy of good people helping other good people to build loving families.
Dear Dr. Maxey,
I like to talk about a good collaborative program and can you please give me your email or email to me sebastiansinto@gmail.com