---Michelle is seeking representation---
Michelle has an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College (Fiction, 2011), is a winner of two San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant (2015, 2019), a San Francisco Writers' Grotto Writing Fellowship (2012), and finalist in Somos En Escritto's Extra-Fiction Contest (2018). She is and editor at Somos en escrito, an alum of both The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (2016) and Voices of Our Nation (2010), two-time recipient of CCI quick grant (2013, 2015). Michelle was a reader / assistant at The Kimberly Cameron Literary Agency, founder and host of the Borderlands Lectura series, The Kaleidoscope Reading Series and member of The Drunken Goats writing group.
Of mixed heritage, Michelle is preoccupied with borders--the physical, geographical ones and the intangible, internal ones--and ways to heal and supersede them. Her work-in-progress, Aztlán, is a collection of short stories that blend Aztec and Catholic mythology, family lore and current events, and was inspired from this obsession. These stories take place along the Mexican-U.S. border and ultimately, ask the question: What makes home? The Heart of Aztlán, an installation piece, is a visual extension of her literary work with Aztlán and was on display at SOMArts Gallery Oct-Nov 2014. Michelle is also at work on a YA novel featuring a young girl on an unexpected wild journey that takes her deep into the earth and forces her to summon courage and fortitude that she had never before needed as well as a memoir about healing from Lyme Disease.
Michelle has reported from the SF Bay Area, Mexico and Costa Rica. She been published in Alpinist, Vice, The San Francisco Chronicle, Narratively, Catapult, Remezcla, Complex, The Rumpus, Everyday Feminism, xojane, The Tico Times, Yoga Journal, Pilates Style Magazine, Mountain Project, SF Station, 7 Ponds, Brit + Co., Health Grades, KCET, Women Arts Blog, Menlo Park Almanac, Sun Song and From Sac, among others.
She speaks Spanish, dances salsa and is planning her next climbing trip.
Michelle has an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College (Fiction, 2011), is a winner of two San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant (2015, 2019), a San Francisco Writers' Grotto Writing Fellowship (2012), and finalist in Somos En Escritto's Extra-Fiction Contest (2018). She is and editor at Somos en escrito, an alum of both The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (2016) and Voices of Our Nation (2010), two-time recipient of CCI quick grant (2013, 2015). Michelle was a reader / assistant at The Kimberly Cameron Literary Agency, founder and host of the Borderlands Lectura series, The Kaleidoscope Reading Series and member of The Drunken Goats writing group.
Of mixed heritage, Michelle is preoccupied with borders--the physical, geographical ones and the intangible, internal ones--and ways to heal and supersede them. Her work-in-progress, Aztlán, is a collection of short stories that blend Aztec and Catholic mythology, family lore and current events, and was inspired from this obsession. These stories take place along the Mexican-U.S. border and ultimately, ask the question: What makes home? The Heart of Aztlán, an installation piece, is a visual extension of her literary work with Aztlán and was on display at SOMArts Gallery Oct-Nov 2014. Michelle is also at work on a YA novel featuring a young girl on an unexpected wild journey that takes her deep into the earth and forces her to summon courage and fortitude that she had never before needed as well as a memoir about healing from Lyme Disease.
Michelle has reported from the SF Bay Area, Mexico and Costa Rica. She been published in Alpinist, Vice, The San Francisco Chronicle, Narratively, Catapult, Remezcla, Complex, The Rumpus, Everyday Feminism, xojane, The Tico Times, Yoga Journal, Pilates Style Magazine, Mountain Project, SF Station, 7 Ponds, Brit + Co., Health Grades, KCET, Women Arts Blog, Menlo Park Almanac, Sun Song and From Sac, among others.
She speaks Spanish, dances salsa and is planning her next climbing trip.
