Michael E. Diaz, Author/psychotherapist
(previously Michael Pearson)
Publications/accolades/awards
billy birch
I watch whales fall
IN the bottom of the bucket
Our SOn’s Hair
Curtis brown creative
Brother, sister/ sister, brother
and only I remain
“Diaz takes the two-schoolmates-dealing-with-their-gayness trope and shoots it into infinity. Daring and beautifully written.” James Penha
a halo, on fire for eternity
tree stump
i do not belong here
splinters from boxes
Stir the porridge, knock the ceiling
BBC Radio, Broadcast, 2024
if a cow could hold my hand
my tangential life
Five Minute Flash, Online Publication, 2023
michael e. Diaz (michael pearson)
contact@michaelediaz.com

I write fiction about the violence we inherit and the strange ways we survive them. My work moves between the literary and the speculative, often circling masculinity, myth, grief, worship, erasure, and the thin membrane between the sacred and the grotesque. I’m less interested in neat arcs than in the pressure built by the unresolved.
I’m drawn to stories that blur genre and resist neat moral conclusions. Bodies matter. Atmosphere matters. The unsaid matters most of all.
Currently completing my MA in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol, I’m seeking representation for a:
- 70k speculative/horror literary fiction about repression and familial trauma (Completed)
- 60k literary short story collection (Completed)
- 60k literary fiction about the slow creep of eugenics
- 14k (170 pages) trade non-fiction anxiety support book
Get in touch.