Michael Scott Curnes is a multi-award-winning Canadian author. He lives with his husband, Bernard in Victoria, British Columbia. Born in Coeur d'Alene and raised in Idaho and Montana, Curnes attended the universities of Idaho and New Mexico. In 1994 Curnes moved to Vancouver Island and became a fully fledged Canadian Citizen on Valentine's Day, 2000. He has written eleven novels, six of which have been published.
His sixth novel, Simpleman (published August 15, 2015 by Down Wind Press) is a fictional memoir encompassing a period of time in rural, wild west America from 1946-2025 when men were men . . . and sheep and homosexuals were rightly nervous. Simpleman earned the GRAND PRIZE SILVER AWARD in the 2025 Reader Views Literary Awards, along with the 2025 Reader Views GOLD AWARD for LGBTQIA+ Fiction. Simpleman was also recognized by the 2025 Reader Views Literary Awards as the BEST BOOK in the CANADA WEST Regional category. In addition, Simpleman picked up the BEST LGBTQ2+ Fiction Prize in the 2025 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, earning honourable mentions for BEST FICTION, BEST COVER and BEST INTERIOR BOOK DESIGN.
Published Novels: Simpleman, 2025 ISBN: 978-1-998844-03-3; To Pay Paul, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-7772988-5-2; Wicked Ninnish, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-7772988-0-7; Coping with Ash, 2017 ISBN: 10-1629014605; For the Love of Mother, ISBN: 978-1-7772988-2-1; VAL, ISBN: 1-885487-19-3.
Anthologies: Living Artfully, Reflections from the Far West Coast, ISBN: 10-1926780140 Contributing Writer to this anthology. Writing the West Coast: In Love With Place, ISBN: 10-1-55380-055-9 Contributing Writer to this anthology
Newspapers, Magazines The Globe and Mail, Feature Columnist, June 25, 1996, “Facts and Arguments” The Sound Magazine, Feature Writer 1998-2001UpBeat!, Feature WriterVictoria Times Columnist, Feature Columnist August 10, 2003
