Astral Pipeline authors are seekers first, writers second. They’ve walked hard roads, asked impossible questions, and found their way to the page. We represent voices shaped by experience, hunger, and hard-won wisdom — writers who don’t just tell stories, but live them.
Malcolm Ivey
Novelist, essayist, singer/songwriter. Malcolm Ivey is the award-winning author of seven novels including On the Shoulders of Giants and the Miranda Rights series. Additionally, he has written over 100 essays on everything from music to politics to football to addiction to self-mastery to kindness. You can find many of them in Letters to the Universe: Essays on crime, craft, and the middle way. He has built a career writing about the criminal justice system, a subject he knows intimately. In 2011, six years into a 20-year mandatory sentence for armed robbery, he made the pivotal decision to disengage from prison life and begin working on his first novel, Consider the Dragonfly, a story that loosely mirrors his own. He is now working on his ninth book. Just as other authors’ backgrounds inform their novels, his life on the inside of the razor wire fuels the tense plotlines and colorful characters that populate his stories. But the pages are not dominated by anger and despair—his voice insists on the possibility of compassion. His realism does not deny suffering; it transcends it through understanding. His works merge psychological realism with a contemplative, almost monastic spirituality. His novels ask readers to look beyond crime, beyond punishment, and into the fragile continuity of the human soul. In doing so, he joins the ranks of those rare writers for whom literature is not merely an art form but a moral vocation.
