Michael Mirolla is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright who lives in Oakville, Ontario.
[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] In 1952, Mirolla immigrated with his mother and brother from the town of Jelsi in Italy to Montreal, Canada at the age of four.