Michelle is a writer, editor, and attorney. Her fiction has been awarded the Gulf Coast Prize, Columbia University SPA’s Gold Circle Award, and nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Michelle’s work is, or will be, included in Black Warrior Review, Gulf Coast, The Forge Literary, Arts & Letters, Lunch Ticket, Consequence Forum, and others.

Michelle holds a BFA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago and a Juris Doctor. She is the Editor in Chief of House of Arcanum, a journal of curated fiction. Many of her stories have been finalists for various prizes (including the Wright Prize for literary military fiction).

Michelle is also a combat veteran of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, former helicopter pilot, Bronze Star recipient, and mother of a child with severe disabilities—all of which inform her work.

She is represented by Katie Grimm of Curtis Brown, Ltd. Contact Michelle at Hello@MichelleReneeBrady.com or through Curtis Brown, Ltd.