Sean Michaels

Sean Michaels is a Canadian novelist, music writer, and the founder of Said the Gramophone, one of the world's first and most influential music blogs. His fiction blends literary ambition with a deep love of music, technology, and the mysteries of creative life. Do You Remember Being Born? is a thought-provoking and beautifully written novel inspired by the intersection of poetry and artificial intelligence. The story follows an ageing poet who is invited to collaborate with a powerful AI to create a new poem, raising profound questions about creativity, authorship, and what it means to make art in an age of machines. The novel was praised for its intelligence, its emotional depth, and its timely engagement with one of the most pressing cultural questions of our era. Michaels is also the author of Us Conductors, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards. Do You Remember Being Born? is available as an audiobook alongside the print edition, giving listeners a luminous and intellectually stimulating way to explore the future of creativity. Michaels continues to write fiction that sits at the frontier of art, technology, and human experience.