About the Author

Michael J. Meraw is an author whose work delves into the dark intersection of environmental collapse, existential reckoning, and humanity’s unrelenting impact on the planet and on the vulnerable lives caught inside its systems of power. As a former Canadian Armed Forces pilot and corporate aerospace leader, he brings a hard-won perspective on survival, control, and power dynamics that shapes his exploration of humanity’s tenuous hold on the natural world.

He channels these experiences into narratives that challenge the myth of human dominance. His stories trace what happens when the earth stops forgiving us—when rivers remember, forests reclaim, and species speak back, and when human-made systems like cartel camps become closed ecosystems of inherited violence.

Originally from Canada, he now lives in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, writing from inside the region that shapes Cartel Babies and the everyday lives lived in its shadow.

Living in Culiacán has given him a ground-level view of Mexico’s “third face” of cartel power—the quiet majority who navigate fear, loyalty, and survival while trying to protect their families inside a system they did not choose.

All of Meraw’s fiction unfolds within the interconnected EᴠØ-Myth Universe™, a transmedia world of games, films, and novels where conscience evolves, creation keeps score, and every species bears the cost of what only one species created.

Meraw’s most recently completed and upcoming projects include:

Cartel Babies (2026) is a literary–commercial psychological thriller set in present-day Sinaloa, Mexico. When a retired Canadian with a long military and aerospace background is abducted on the highway between Culiacán and Mazatlán and forced into a remote mountain cartel camp, he becomes part of the hidden labor engine that feeds northwest Mexico’s synthetic-drug economy and an unwilling witness to a system where violence is inherited, not chosen. As he learns the camp’s rhythms, hierarchies, and the quiet rules that keep some boys alive and erase others, his fight to stay alive collides with a harder question: what happens to those born inside a war they never chose?

Let the River Decide (2025) is a literary eco-thriller. In Mike’s and his stepfather Cliff’s alternating first-person voices, a road-north trip with two dogs intersects with tainted waterways, missing wildlife, and a growing pattern of missing people, echoing northern Elders’ warning that the river keeps score—and when humans push the balance too far, it reclaims.

The Book of Dominatus I is a three-part eco-mythic cycle that weaves eco-horror and literary speculative fiction into a single evolving universe:

• Part I—The Lost World of Mythoamphibia (2023) exists as a fully illustrated novel and a feature-length screenplay, with an accompanying film adaptation package developed for cinematic storytellers such as Guillermo del Toro. It also anchors DOMINATUS: Scriptures & Rot—a narrative-heavy horror board game rooted in the EᴠØ-Myth Multiverse. On British Columbia’s Ring of Fire, a poisoned lake awakens as witness and judge. Amphibian myth collides with human desecration in a literary horror of conscience.

• Part II—Return to the Source (2024) is a literary eco-myth spanning prehistory and cosmology: as God journeys across the multiverse to confront Her Sisters and the wreckage of their creations, a lone human known only as “the Fourth” faces a choice that will test the limits of conscience and the fate of Neanderthals in Her universe. Return to the Source is the flagship work of the EᴠØ-Myth Universe.

• Part III—King Amphibia’s Rise (in development) is a near-future eco-horror: when the fused Toadstone and Mother-of-Pearl birth a regenerative amphibian sovereign, creation’s cure may become a replacement—and humanity must choose stewardship or surrender.

Whether through novels, screenplays, or game design, Michael’s work examines the forces that shape civilization—both the ones we create and the ones we refuse to acknowledge. In an era where humans remain the planet’s most persistent blight, his writing asks an unflinching question: “What happens when nature finally stops forgiving us?”