Michelle is a writer, editor, and attorney. Her fiction is included in The Forge Literary Magazine, Arts & Letters, Lunch Ticket, Fractured Lit, and others. She has been awarded a Gold Circle Award for fiction from the Columbia University SPA, and she is currently nominated for two 2025 Pushcart Prizes.

She holds a BFA in fiction writing and is EIC of House of Arcanum, a journal of curated fiction. Many of her stories have been finalists for various prizes, and her short story collection was a finalist for the Regal House Publishing’s W.S. Porter Prize.

Michelle is also a combat veteran, former helicopter pilot, Bronze Star recipient, and mother of a child with severe disabilities—all which inform her work. She is querying a novel-in-stories about the intersection of motherhood and war. Contact her at Hello@MichelleReneeBrady.com.