Michael Ashwood

Michael Ashwood writes cozy, hopecore fantasy on the glowing border between YA and adult, where found families, stubborn kindness, and offbeat magic collide. His stories sit at the crossroads of cozy fantasy, modern fairytale, and weird fiction, blending inventive worldbuilding with a dry, slightly sideways sense of humour and a quiet belief that gentleness can change the world.

He lives in Canada with too many notebooks, not enough shelf space, and a running list of ideas that are all, unfortunately, deeply, deeply funny to him. When he isn’t writing, Michael can usually be found doing extremely Canadian things—walking forest trails, apologizing, remarking on the weather, that sort of thing.