Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson is a writer living in Toronto. He writes a wide variety of crime and crime-adjacent fiction, including novels, novellas, stories, and flash fiction. He is the past winner of the Black Orchid Novella Award (2021) and the Crime Writers of Canada Best Novella Award (2023) for “The Man Who Went Down Under.” He placed in the Toronto Star’s Short Story Contest (2022) for “The Unfinished Book.”

In June 2024, his first novel, The Road to Heaven, was published by Dundurn Press. The Road to Heaven is a noir mystery introducing artless young detective Patrick Bird, set in Toronto’s Parkdale and High Park during the tumultuous ’60s. It was shortlisted for a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in the Best Paperback Original category and a Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award in the Best First P.I. novel category.