Michael Wiley

Michael Wiley is the Shamus Award-winning author of twelve novels in four series. The most recent series features Franky Dast, an exonerated convict who investigates crimes involving the unjustly accused. Michael’s short stories appear often in magazines and anthologies, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022. He has written two books of literary criticism and over forty critical reviews and articles. He is a former board member of the Mystery Writers of America. Under the penname Michael George, he is the author of the Changing Light Prize-winning verse novel Find Your Own Way Home.

Before turning to fiction, Michael was a freelance writer, a political speech writer, and an assistant at a last-chance residential facility for teenagers charged with felonies. Michael has taught literature and writing at University of North Florida for twenty-five years.

Michael grew up in Chicago and lived and worked in the neighborhoods and on the streets where he sets his Kelson and Kozmarski mysteries. He lives now in Jacksonville, Florida – the setting of the Franky Dast and the Daniel Turner stories.