Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill (born June 12, 1966) is an acclaimed Canadian novelist, poet, and playwright whose genre-bending, psychologically intricate narratives have secured some of Canada's highest literary honours. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Toronto, Ontario, he studied at Indiana University and York University before fully immersing himself in the Canadian literary community. He spent years as a core editorial voice and co-publisher of the internationally renowned literary magazine Brick, all while building a versatile personal portfolio that includes poetry collections like Light-crossing and hit stage plays like Building Jerusalem. Redhill vaulted into national fiction prominence with his 2001 debut novel, Martin Sloane, which was a finalist for the Giller Prize, and followed it with his Toronto Book Award-winning historical mystery, Consolation. In 2017, he captured permanent global renown when his dark, doppelgänger psychological thriller, Bellevue Square, won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. Writing under the closely guarded pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe, he also established himself as a dominant force in Canadian crime fiction, penning the highly successful Hazel Micallef detective series which began with The Calling and was later adapted into a Hollywood feature film starring Susan Sarandon. He recently achieved widespread critical praise for his 2025 Globe and Mail Best Book, The Trial of Katterfelto, a mind-bending historical-speculative novel tracking an 18th-century travelling magician who discovers a time-bending artifact predicting a modern climate and artificial intelligence crisis.