Michael Christie

MICHAEL CHRISTIE is the author of Greenwood, which was an international bestseller, longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, won the Arthur Ellis Award, and has been translated into ten languages. If I Fall, If I Die, his debut novel, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Kirkus Prize, was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick, and was on numerous Best of the Year lists. His linked collection of stories, The Beggar's Garden, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction, and won the Vancouver Book Award. A former carpenter and unhoused-shelter worker, he lives in Victoria, British Columbia, the unceded territory of the Lkwungen speaking people, and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEC First Nations.