Michael Winkler is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction, living in Melbourne on unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. He is the winner of the Calibre Prize. His novel Grimmish was shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first self-published novel to make the long- or shortlist. Griefdogg is his second novel.
‘Grimmish meets a need I didn't even know I had.’ * Helen Garner on Grimmish * ‘Playful, visceral and elegant. Sat down to read it, lost an afternoon.’ * Robbie Arnott on Grimmish * ‘The strangest book you are likely to read this year.’ * J. M. Coetzee on Grimmish *