Michael Mirolla

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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).^[1] He has won the Bressani Award a total of three times.^[2]

In both 2009 and 2014, Mirolla served as a finalist judge for the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest, selecting Vickie Weaver's Billie Girl in 2009 and Gregory Hill's The Lonesome Trials of Johnny Riles in 2014.

His short story collection Paradise Island and Other Galaxies was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for short fiction in 2021.^[3]