Michael Bourne is the author of Blithedale Canyon, published by Regal House in 2022. He will publish his second novel, We Bring You an Hour of Darkness, with DoppelHouse Press in October 2025.
He is a long-time contributing editor at Poets & Writers Magazine, and he has written for the New York Times, the Globe & Mail, The Economist, Literary Hub, and Salon. His fiction has appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines including, most recently, december, The Southampton Review, and Tin House.
He grew up in Northern California and now lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he teaches writing at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
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