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About Michael Lista

Michael Lista is an investigative journalist essayist and poet. He has worked as a book columnist for the National Post and as the poetry editor of The Walrus. He is the author of four books: the poetry volumes Bloom and The Scarborough; Strike Anywhere a collection of his writing about literature television and culture; and The Human Scale: Murder Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems a book of longform journalism. His essays and investigative stories have appeared in the New Yorker The Atlantic Slate The Walrus Canadaland and Toronto Life. He is a contributing editor at Toronto Life and Maclean's. He was the 2017 Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University and the winner of the 2020 National Magazine Awards for both Investigative Reporting and Long Form Feature Writing. His story The Sting is being adapted by Adam Perlman Robert Downey Jr. and Team Downey into a television series for Apple TV+.