FICTION Michelle writes about poverty, wealth, war, death, birth, parenthood, childhood, and everything in between. She holds a B.F.A. in Fiction from Columbia College Chicago where she was a student of the Story Workshop Method and the only undergraduate selected to participate in the Master’s Program Cooperative with Bath Spa University (UK)—editing an anthology of fiction and attending MFA classes in Bath. She is the editor-in-chief at House of Arcanum.
Her work is, or will be, included in:
The Forge Literary Magazine
Fractured Lit
Arts & Letters
Lunch Ticket
Riddle Fence Press
The Maudlin House
Wrath-Bearing Tree
Roi Fainéant Press
Feminine Collective
Broken Antler Magazine
In Short Magazine
Umbrella Factory Magazine
Marrow Magazine
Ginosko Literary Journal
Bulb Culture Collective
The Big Ugly Review
Hair Trigger Magazine
Metaworker Literary Magazine
Fine Lines Literary Journal
I laid my bags in my old bedroom, in the doorway, actually because the room itself was full of boxes, trash and dying plants. "What's going on with you?" I asked.She looked up from filing her nails. She was wearing an old, once white bathrobe barely closed over her skin and fat. Her hair was slick and flat with grease, her face puffy and lined with the creases of sleep. The apartment smelled of death, and she herself permeated unwashed crevices and defeat. "I'm not doing too good, kiddo," she said and looked guilty.
-Heavy or Prolonged Bleeding, Ginsosko Literary Journal, 2024
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Recognition:
Gold Circle Award for Fiction, Columbia University Scholastic Press Association
Nominated for the 2025 Pushcart Prize x2 (awaiting results)
Honorable Mention, Riddle Fence Annual Fiction Contest
Finalist, Fractured Literature 2024 Open
Finalist, 2024 Wright Prize
Long-List, W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections, Regal House Publishing, 2024
Editing credits:
Editor in Chief, House of Arcanum, (nominated for CLMP Firecracker Award—awaiting results)
Open to Interpretation, a print anthology of fiction
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