Mike Fiorito

Fiction Writer

Website: 
mikefiorito.com

Author's Bio

A freelance journalist, I am the author of For All We Know, Mescalito Riding His White Horse, Falling from Trees, The Hated Ones, Sleeping with Fishes, Call Me Guido, Freud’s Haberdashery Habits, and Hallucinating Huxley. 

Mescalito Riding His White Horse received the 2024 Independent Press Distinguished Book Award in Spirituality.  

Falling from Trees received the 2022 Independent Press Distinguished Book Award in Short Stories. 

My new book, UFO Symphonic-Journeys into Sound, is currently available for preorder and will be published February 1st, 2025. 

Review of Mescalito Riding His White Horse: https://mikefiorito.com/f/kirkus-review-...

Review of Falling from Trees: https://mikefiorito.com/f/new-york-journ...

For more info, please visit https://mikefiorito.com/

 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
UFO Symphonic (Apprentice House, 2025)
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For All We Know (Loyola Press, 2024)
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Mescalito Riding His White Horse (O Books, 2023)
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Falling from Trees (Loyola Press, 2021)
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The Hated Ones (Bordighera Press, 2021)
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Call Me Guido (Ovunque Siamo, 2019)
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Freud's Haberdashery Habit and Other Stories (Alien Buddha Press, 2019)
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Hallucinating Huxley (Alien Buddha Press, 2018)
Prizes won: 
  • Recipient of the 2024 Independent Press Distinguished Book Award in Spirituality 
  • Recipient of the 2022 Independent Press Distinguished Book Award in Short Stories 
  • Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2019 

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Queens, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Queens, NY
New York
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Last update: Nov 19, 2024