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:

Beltway: An Anthology of Writers from DC

Riddle Fence Press

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

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Winner of Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction

Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Finalist for Fiction Open

Nominated for Best of the Net

Honorable Mention for RFP Prize

Nominated for Pushcart Prize

Gold Circle Award for Fiction, Columbia University Scholastic Press Association

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.

Other Recognition:

Finalist, 2024 & 2025 Wright Prize

Finalist, W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections, Regal House Publishing, 2024

Work selected and discussed in Mondettes

Editing credits:

Editor in Chief, House of Arcanum

Open to Interpretation, a print anthology of fiction

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