Michael Mirolla discusses how he became involved with theliterary publishing house Guernica Editions, the role discipline plays in his writing, and why creating a human connection with readers matters across everygenre.

Michael Mirolla’s publications include the novella The Last News Vendor, winner of the 2020 Hamilton Literary Award for fiction, and three Bressani Prizes: the novel Berlin (2010), the poetry collection The House on 14th Avenue (2014), and the short story collection Lessons in Relationship Dyads (2016). His latest poetry collection, At the End of the World, was short-listed for the 2022 Hamilton Literary Award. Michael has participated in multiple writers’ residencies, including Vancouver’s Historic Joy Kogawa House in 2019, Olot,Catalonia in 2023, and Barcelona in 2024, completing drafts of his novels The Second Law of Thermodynamics and How About This …?. Born in Italy and raised in Montreal, he now lives outside Gananoque, Ontario, and helps run the Canadian independent literary publishing house Guernica Editions.

In this episode, he reads from How About This …?.

Author Links: https://www.michaelmirolla.com/,https://atbaypress.com/books/detail/how-about-this

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