Michael Mirolla is the author of a clutch of novels, plays, short story collections and books of poetry. He has been awarded three Bressani Prizes for the novel Berlin (2010), the poetry collection The House on 14th Avenue (2014) and the short story collection, Lessons in Relationship Dyads (2016). This is his third book with Exile, following Paradise Island and Other Galaxies (2020) and The Photographer in Search of Death (2017). Born in Italy and raised in Montreal, Michael now lives in Hamilton, Ontario.