Mike’s novels The Wraith of Skrellman, The Apocalypse of Lloyd, and I Ain’t Got No Home In This World Anymore are available from Montag Press. His forthcoming book "The Many Fentanyl Addicted Wraiths of Sault Sainte Marie" is coming out in the fall from Tailwinds Press.
Mike grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, which is small a city in Ontario, Canada. It's on the St. Marys River, north of the U.S. border, near 3 of the Great Lakes. He currently lives in Toronto Canada, having graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in journalism. Mike works as a stenographer for the deaf at York University, a job which he says is perfect for a writer. He discusses how leaving the home of his youth was a source of sadness because both the time and the place are now gone, and the trilogy explores the theme of missing a place that you can’t go back to. His heritage is Franco-Ontarian, however Mike says he has been affectively anglicized.
He has described his writing as post-modern. His admiration of the writer Donald Barthelme, who was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction, has been an influence. Mike says reading Barthelme has allowed him to be as maximalist and zany as he wants to be.
Talking with Canadian author Mike Sauve about missing a place you can't go back to.