Michael Botur, born 1984 in Christchurch, New Zealand, living in Whangarei, Northland, is the author of eight short story collections, five novels, a children's book and the poetry collection 'Loudmouth: Page & Pub Poems.' He has won awards for short fiction in the US, Australia and New Zealand. Botur has published journalism in most major newspapers and magazines in New Zealand and is an emerging screenwriter.

Botur has published creative writing in most NZ literary journals, has won various prizes for short stories and poems since beginning writing in 2005 and has been included in numerous anthologies.

Botur has published news articles in VICE World News, the Listener, New Zealand Herald, Herald on Sunday, Sunday Star-Times, The Spinoff, Noted, Mana and North & South.

In 2021 Botur was the first Kiwi winner of the Australasian Horror Writers Association Short Story Award for 'Test of Death' and has been runner-up twice since.