Michael Helm

Michael Helm was born in Saskatchewan. His novel Cities of Refuge was a national bestseller in Canada and was a Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Award finalist, a Giller Prize nominee, and a Globe and Mail and Now magazineBest Book of the Year. His earlier novels are The Projectionist, a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Trillium Award; and In the Place of Last Things, a finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. His writings on fiction, poetry, and the visual arts have appeared in North American newspapers and magazines, including Brick, where he serves as an editor. He teaches at York University in Toronto.