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, placed twice on Ellery Queen’s Annual Readers List for his short stories "A Drive-by on Chalmers Road?" (2020) and "Carver (and) [Company]" (2023), was cited on the Distinguished List for 2024's Best American Mystery and Suspense, and is a recent Derringer Award nominee for his flash fiction piece "Kargin the Necromancer."

     He currently lives in Detroit.