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 quiet violences 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 tidy arcs than in pressure — the kind that builds slowly and changes the air in a room.

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:

  • 60k speculative/horror literary fiction
  • 60k literary short story collection
  • 14k (170 pages) trade non-fiction anxiety support book

Get in touch.