Michael J. Atwood

Michael J. Atwood is a graduate of Boston College and the University of Southern California’s Master of Professional Writing program. Over the past twenty years, he has written and published five short story collections. His latest, Moral Delirium, was released in August 2025.

Atwood’s debut collection, HiStory of Santa Monica: Stories (2010), was published by Aqueous Books and achieved modest success, selling widely and remaining available in select bookstores across the U.S., UK, and France. In 2016, he followed with HiStory of Santa Monica II: More Stories. Both collections explore disillusioned characters navigating life in Hollywood, Santa Monica, and Los Angeles. His acclaimed collection Delirium Fades was published in late 2021, followed by The Moral Infection in 2023.

Currently, Atwood is an ELA Coach / Interventionist at Durfee High School. He formerly served as the English Department Head at Taunton High School and has taught AP Language and Literature and other English courses at New Bedford High School and other high schools in Massachusetts and California. His journalistic work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Patriot Ledger, The North Attleborough Free Press, and The Sun Chronicle.

His fiction often blends mystery, suspense, and noir. He is now completing his first novel, Maida, set in contemporary London, due to be published in late 2026.

He is also releasing Delirium Passes…Collected Stories 2000-2025 this summer, memorializing his best stories as ranked by readers and reviewers.

Atwood lives in his longtime hometown of North Attleborough, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children.