Michael Libling

Michael Libling is a Canadian author and former talk-radio host. He was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 2015 for his novella "Hollywood North", which he later expanded into his debut novel, Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels.

Life and career Libling was born in Trenton, Ontario, the setting of much of his fiction. He left the show in the early 1990s to concentrate on writing fiction.

He lives in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, on Montreal's West Island.

Writing Libling's short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and reprint anthologies including The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror and Welcome to Dystopia. He subsequently expanded the story into his debut novel, Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels, published by ChiZine Publications in 2019.

Set in the author's hometown of Trenton, Ontario, the coming-of-age mystery draws on the town's little-known silent-film history. Publishers Weekly called it an "assured, quietly menacing debut" that is "steeped in bittersweet childhood nostalgia and coming-of-age foibles",

His second novel, The Serial Killer's Son Takes a Wife, an off-kilter horror-thriller narrated by the son of a notorious serial killer, was published by WordFire Press in 2023. and Libling discussed it in an interview on the horror-themed program Darkness Radio.