Michael Mirolla
Michael Mirolla is a successful freelance writer with valuable experience in teaching and journalism. He also has an extensive background as a book reviewer for daily newspapers in Montreal, Calgary, Halifax, and Toronto and for literary magazines such as Prairie Fire, Matrix, Event, Dandelion, and Quarry.His own published work includes collections of poetry and fiction. His book, The Formal Logic of Emotion, has been very well received. His short stories and poems have been published in many literary journals in Canada, the U.S., and Great Britain—as well as in several anthologies, including Tesseracts, a collection of Canadian science fiction. In 1992 his short story “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence” was selected for The Journey Prize Anthology 4 as one of the ten best stories published in Canadian literary magazines that year. He has won numerous other awards: in 1970 The Solange Karsh Medal and Ottawa Little Theatre Certificate as first prize winner of the Canadian Playwriting Competition, in 1971 the Macmillan Prize in Creative Writing, and in 1977 the Canada Council Arts Award. Since 1989 he has been co-partner in a scriptwriting team writing feature films, sitcoms, and TV series. One of their feature film scripts was awarded a development grant in 1991 from FUND, the oundation to Underwrite New Drama for pay-TV, to write the first draft for Moon of the Trickster, a feature film.
