Mike Donoghue grew up in a small fishing village on the East Coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, and now resides in Vancouver. Mike’s short stories have appeared in literary magazines and journals, including Abyss & Apex and Polar Borealis, as well as anthologies like Winds of Change: Stories About Our Climate, and Fernwood’s Everything Is So Political.

Mike has been a James White Award runner-up, a Pulp Literature Raven winner for best short story of the year, and a reader at the Vancouver Word Festival. When shortlisted for the Sunburst Award in 2016, the judges described him as “a prolific speculative fiction writer whose writing has inventive plot twists and convincing scientific jargon and is outlandish, clever, and completely hilarious.” Mike works in public health, where he spends much of his time preoccupied with herding cats.