Michael E. Diaz, Author/psychotherapist

(previously Michael Pearson)

Publications/accolades/awards





IN the bottom of the bucket




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



i do not belong here



Stir the porridge, knock the ceiling

BBC Radio, Broadcast, 2024




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.