Michael Christie is a Canadian writer, whose debut story collection The Beggar's Garden was a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize[1] and a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

[2] Born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Christie later moved to Vancouver, British Columbia to pursue professional skateboarding, and studied psychology at Simon Fraser University.

He subsequently worked for several years in social services before returning to the University of British Columbia's creative writing program in 2008.

[3] His debut novel, If I Fall, If I Die, a coming-of-age-story about the son of a reclusive agoraphobic filmmaker who leaves home for the first time to search for a lost boy, was published early 2015 in the US by Hogarth, and in Canada by McClelland & Stewart.

[10] Greenwood was selected for the 2023 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Keegan Connor Tracy.