Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill (born June 12, 1966) is an American‑born Canadian poet, playwright, novelist, and literary editor. Originally from Baltimore, he was raised in Toronto, where he studied acting, film, and English at York University and the University of Toronto after a brief stint at Indiana University +10Goodreads+10inspiringquotes.us+10. Redhill has worn many hats: he served on the editorial board of Coach House Press, later became publisher and editor of Brick, one of Canada's premier literary journals, and produced numerous works across genres—including poetry collections, plays, short stories, and crime fiction under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe HarperCollins Canada+10thecanadianencyclopedia.ca+10Goodreads+10.

As an author, Redhill has earned widespread acclaim. His debut novel Martin Sloane (2001) won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Books in Canada First Novel Award; Consolation (2006) received the Toronto Book Award and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2017, writing under his own name for Bellevue Square—which had long been speculated to be authored by Inger Ash Wolfe—he won the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize +13thecanadianencyclopedia.ca+13+13. He also penned crime thrillers like The Calling and The Night Bell as Wolfe, one of which was adapted into a film starring Susan Sarandon thecanadianencyclopedia.ca+2+2Penguin Random House Canada+2.

Redhill is known for his deeply reflective and often poetic insights. For instance, he has said: “Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.” GoodreadsA-Z Quotes“We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life… it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable.” AllGreatQuotes+2QuoteTab+2BrainyQuote+2; and “Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing.” +2BrainyQuote+2AllGreatQuotes+2. These lines reveal his awareness of human vulnerability, transformation, and our evolving inner lives.

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