Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael Wehunt grew up in North Georgia, close enough to the Appalachians to feel them and live in their shadow. He did not make it far when he left, falling sixty miles south to the lost city of Atlanta, where he lives today, with fewer woods but still many trees. He writes. He reads. Robert Aickman fidgets next to Mary Oliver and Seamus Heaney on his favorite bookshelf.

His short fiction has appeared in many places, including multiple best-of anthologies. His debut novel, The October Film Haunt, won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel and a Georgia Author of the Year Award, while his story collection Greener Pastures was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, shortlisted for the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts’ Crawford Award, and published in Spain, where it garnered nominations for the Premio Ignotus and Premio Amaltea, winning the latter. The novelette “Vampire Fiction” was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, too, and can be found in his sophomore collection, The Inconsolables, a new edition of which will be published in 2027.

His second novel, Nightjars, arrives September 29, 2026 from St. Martin’s Press.

Michael is represented by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid Agency.