FICTION

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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 included in:

Gulf Coast (GP Prize Winner)

Black Warrior Review

The Forge Literary (Pushcart nom)

Consequence Forum

Fractured Lit (Fiction Open, finalist)

Arts & Letters

Lunch Ticket (BON nom)

Crab Orchard Review (BON nom)

Beltway: An Anthology of Writers from DC

Riddle Fence Press (Hon. Mention)

Broken Antler Magazine

In Short Magazine

Umbrella Factory Magazine (Pushcart Prize nom)

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.

Editing credits:

Editor in Chief, House of Arcanum

Open to Interpretation, a print anthology of fiction

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