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"The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict
with itself."
- William Faulkner
Michelle grew up in Los Angeles near the ocean. A fourth generation Angeleno, she wrote
poems in college at U.C. Berkeley where she studied theatre. She enjoyed careers as a dancer and a chef before marrying
Phil Abrams, the actor, and giving birth to their two beautiful children, Elijah and Verarose. In 2001 she
began writing and publishing in earnest often scribbling poems in parking lots while she waited for her eldest to finish school, her
youngest asleep in the backseat.
Michelle's work has been published or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train,
Swink, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine, Poetry Daily, Poetry Southeast, Southeast Review, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review,
Passages North, Small Spiral Notebook, Many Mountains Moving, Gargoyle, Slipstream, Phoebe, Mudfish, Clackamas Literary
Review, Dogwood, Rattle, Pearl, and others. She won the Glimmer Train Poetry Open (2003), the Poets on Parnassus (2004), and Rock
and Sling's Virginia Brendemuehl (2005), poetry competitions. Individual poems have been finalists
for numerous national poetry contests as has her full length book "Good Friday Kiss."
GOOD NEWS!
Thomas Lux chose Michelle's manuscript
GOOD FRIDAY KISS
as the winner of C & R's inaugural DeNovo First Book Award!
More publication info on
GOOD FRIDAY KISS
forthcoming.
She is also pleased to announce that Finishing Line Press will be publishing
her chapbook, Blue Laws this December, 2007!
In January of 2007 Michelle commenced work on an MFA in Poetry at Pacific University, Oregon.
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