Michael Hingston is a writer and publisher in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is the author of Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda, which the Washington Post called "wonderfully entertaining." Hingston's other books include Let's Go Exploring and The Dilettantes; he is also the co-author of Harnarayan Singh's memoir One Game at a Time. His journalism writing has appeared in Wired, National Geographic, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post. He is also the co-founder of Hingston & Olsen Publishing, makers of the Short Story Advent Calendar and other literary experiments.