Michael was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He is the author of two short story collections, Scratching the Surface (Crowswing, 2007), and Undertow and Other Laments (Dark Regions Press, 2010), and co-author of the novel Ouroboros (Arcane Wisdom, 2009). His fiction has appeared, or soon will appear, in Best New Horror 21, the Hint Fiction Anthology, PostScripts, Supernatural Tales, Tesseracts 13, and others.