Michael Hagen is a writer based in Missouri. His fiction often draws from rural Midwestern settings, where work, memory, and place shape ordinary lives in quiet, unsettling ways.

Before turning fully to writing, Hagen spent more than twenty-five years working as an executive chef. That background informs his attention to labor, routine, and physical detail on the page.

His work moves between literary horror and realism, frequently set in kitchens and small communities where intimacy and unease coexist.

Hagen is currently at work on a novel.