Mike McHone is a Derringer Award-winning writer whose fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Rock and a Hard Place, Dark Yonder, Mystery Tribune, Shotgun Honey, the Anthony Award-nominated anthology Under the Thumb, and elsewhere.

     A former journalist, his articles and op-eds have appeared in the Detroit News, the AV Club, Playboy, and numerous other outlets.

     He is the recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Hugh Holton Award, placed twice on Ellery Queen’s Annual Readers List, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as a Best of the Net Award, and was cited on the Distinguished List in 2024's Best American Mystery and Suspense. He currently lives in Detroit.