Michael Blouin is a Canadian writer. His debut novel Chase and Haven was a shortlisted nominee for the amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2008Aritha van Herk, "Judging first fiction first". The Globe and Mail, October 10, 2009. and won the ReLit Award for Best Novel in 2009 and Skin House won the same award in 2020,"Blouin wins ReLit Award". Ottawa Citizen, September 22, 2009. and his poetry collection Wore Down Trust won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2012."A daredevil display of writing; Kemptville author spins a fantasy from stuntman's story". Ottawa Citizen, October 12, 2013. He has also been the recipient of the Lilian I. Found Award, and the Diana Brebner Award, and has served as adjudicator for the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.
Originally from Morrisburg, Ontario, Blouin currently lives in Kemptville, Ontario.
His 2019 novel Skin House won the 2020 ReLit Award for Best Novel."38 books shortlisted for 2020 ReLit Awards". CBC Books, April 27, 2021.
It is included, as part of the Lunar Codex project, in the NASA/Astrobotic mission to the moon in 2024 and, along with I am Billy the Kid, successfully landed on the lunar surface on February 22, 2024 as a part of the historic NASA/Intuitive Machines/SpaceX Odysseus Mission, marking NASA's first return to the moon in fifty years. 2024 also saw the publication of the collected poetry "Hard Electric".
As of March 2023 Blouin is an instructor at the University of Toronto and a guest lecturer at Carleton University.
Works I'm Not Going to Lie to You (2007, ) Chase and Haven (2008, ) Wore Down Trust (2011, ) I Don't Know How to Behave (2013, ) Skin House (2020, ) I am Billy the Kid (2022, ) Hard Electric (2024, )
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