Michael is appearing at two book festivals in May. May 2nd-3rd at Knoxville Book Festival, and May 30th at The Books, Authors, and Publishers Fair in Nashville. Click the links on the names for details.
Michael’s debut novel, Life in a Supermarket Basket, was praised by Kirkus Reviews, “A gleefully cynical riff on life, death, and second chances.” Link to the review HERE.
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Michael Evanichko is a multidisciplinary author, playwright, screenwriter, actor, and creative storyteller whose work blends surreal humor, psychological tension, and the bruised beauty of the gothic. He crafts fiction for books, film, and stage that explore the fragile boundaries between the ordinary and the uncanny. His stories often unfold in liminal spaces; castles, supermarkets, landfills, and neon knapsacks where shame, forgiveness, ancestral rot, and spiritual reckoning collide.
He is the author of The Trilogy of Life, which includes Life in a Supermarket Basket, praised by Kirkus Reviews as “a gleefully cynical riff on life, death, and second chances,” a finalist in the 2023 American Fiction Awards, and recently adapted for the stage; Life in a Savage Landfill; and Life in a Neon Knapsack. Across the trilogy, Evanichko examines the absurdity and ache of modern existence through characters who are broken, striving, and searching for meaning in unlikely places. Once published through small-press Crimson Cloak Publishing, Michael now self-publishes the trilogy. His latest work is the psychological thriller and gothic‑leaning novel The Maroon Candle, which he hopes to publish on a larger scale.
Evanichko has also written two screenplays produced for film: Ritual: Blood Bonds, a dark, atmospheric satanic cult horror film, and Wicked Business, a sharp‑edged thriller about curses and revenge. His screenwriting reflects the same meticulous attention to rhythm, character psychology, and thematic depth found in his novels and plays..