Media
Media Coverage
- Galaxy Press newsletter: How a Dream Became an Award-Winning Tale to be Published in 2026 (September 11, 2025)
- Interview on “The Authors Quill” online radio show (September 6, 2025)
- Press release: Requiem: Tales of the Undead (August 27, 2025)
- Press release: Writers of the Future 2nd Quarter Winners Announced for Volume 42 (July 7, 2025)
- Article: Back to School: My Journey Toward a Creative Writing MFA (September 1, 2024)
Author Bios
- Mini (under 50 words):
Mike Strickland is an award-winning speculative fiction author whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in the bestselling anthology Writers of the Future (Vol. 42), Cast of Wonders, Amazing Stories, Cosmic Daffodil, and elsewhere. He lives in Colorado and writes about the writing craft at www.strick.land.
- Short (about 100 words):
Mike Strickland is an award-winning speculative fiction author whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in the bestselling anthology Writers of the Future (Vol. 42), Cast of Wonders, Amazing Stories, Cosmic Daffodil, and elsewhere. He’s published hundreds of nonfiction articles in the Los Angeles Times, Disney.com, the Travel Channel, and others, and he wrote twenty thousand science fiction-themed trivia questions for a popular game company.
Mike earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Western Colorado University’s Genre Fiction program, and he studied screenwriting at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Mike lives in Colorado and writes about the writing craft at www.strick.land.
- Expanded (about 250 words):
Mike Strickland has made a career out of writing everything from marketing copy and finance articles to technical documentation and mobile app messages—and even twenty thousand science fiction-themed trivia questions. Other jobs he’s been paid to do include scuba diver, navigator, call center representative, user experience designer, and science fiction author. His love of words began with fantasy and sci-fi, where it has now brought him full circle. After a long hiatus from fiction, Mike started writing and publishing again in 2024. A year later, he earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Western Colorado University’s Genre Fiction program and won the prestigious Writers of the Future Contest.
His award-winning speculative fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the bestselling anthology Writers of the Future (Vol. 42), Requiem: Anthology of the Undead (WordFire Press), Cast of Wonders, Amazing Stories, and elsewhere. He’s published hundreds of nonfiction articles in the Los Angeles Times, Disney.com, the Travel Channel, AOL, and many others.
Mike currently lives and writes in a Denver, Colorado suburb, but other places he’s called home include San Diego, Los Angeles, New York City, Washington, DC, Japan, Honduras, an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, and even a 1973 Volkswagen Squareback. He’s not sure if this itinerant lifestyle emerged from his love of travel or vice versa, but his wanderings have undeniably inspired his writing. You can visit him online at www.strick.land.
