Michael Mirolla

Michael Mirolla is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright who lives in Oakville, Ontario. Mirolla was awarded the Bressani Award for his novel Berlin in 2010 (Leapfrog Press). He has won the Bressani Award a total of three times.

Early life and education In 1952, Mirolla immigrated with his mother and brother from the town of Jelsi in Italy to Montreal, Canada at the age of four. He moved to Ontario in 1993 and lived in Toronto before moving to Oakville in 2012. Mirolla graduated from McGill University and completed a masters in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

Short fiction The Formal Logic of Emotion (1992) Hothouse Loves & Other Tales (2007) Lessons in Relationship Dyads (2015) The Photographer in Search of Death (2017) Paradise Island and Other Galaxies (2020)

Poetry Poems (1973) Interstellar Distances (2009) Light and Time (2010) The House on 14th Avenue (2013)

Plays Gargoyles Snails A Revised Experiment