Mike McHone's fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Dark Yonder, Mystery Tribune, Mystery Magazine, Rock and a Hard Place, the Anthony Award-nominated anthology Under the Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression, Edited by SA Cosby, and elsewhere.

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

     He is the 2020 recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Hugh Holton Award and placed twice on Ellery Queen’s prestigious Annual Readers List for his short stories "A Drive-by on Chalmers Road?" (2020) and "Carver and Company" (2023).

     He lives in Detroit.