Michael Bird is a writer and journalist specialized in eastern Europe with fiction published by Lune Journal, Here Comes Everyone, the Bristol Short Story Prize, Daily Drunk Mag and Bandit Fiction, where he works as feedback manager. As a journalist, his work has appeared in publications across the world, including Vice, Politico, Mediapart, Business Insider, and EU Observer, and on the BBC and Deutsche Welle. He has investigated organised crime, corruption in football, stray dog epidemics, the fur trade and vampire-hunters in Romania, killer home-made drugs in Georgia and Moldova, and the war in Ukraine. His website can be found here.
