---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 Janavi Held Artist grant, a San Francisco Writers' Grotto Writing Fellowship (2012), and finalist in Somos en escrito's Extra-Fiction Contest (2018).
She is an alum of Parakeet (2024) The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (2016) and Voices of Our Nation (2010). Michelle was a reader / assistant at The Kimberly Cameron Literary Agency, founder and host of the Borderlands Lectura series and The Kaleidoscope Reading Series.
She is a member of at Louis Place and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto and is the grant writer for Queer Rebels Productions.
Motherhood broke open Michelle's creativity in the best way possible--she started painting in the middle of the night during those months when 2 am and 2 pm are the same thing, and then kept at the middle of the night painting until her baby stopped napping. Whole new lines of inquiry and projects were born from these painting sessions. Michelle is writing a collection of nature-based mythology that explores the transition from girlhood to womanhood, often focusing on how the main character frees herself from those things that can happen--a friendship that hurts more than supports, a lie spread as truth, the lack of social support after assault--that can mire people in the past. These stories are full of talking animals, plants with supernatural powers, conscious water, omniscient mountains and the girls who can see and hear and interact with this magical landscape.
Michelle is also at work on a memoir about healing from Lyme Disease and a series of paintings of mother and earth goddesses and the plants associated with them.
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 teaches pilates at Bright Star, swims, climbs and is probably planning a backpacking 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 Janavi Held Artist grant, a San Francisco Writers' Grotto Writing Fellowship (2012), and finalist in Somos en escrito's Extra-Fiction Contest (2018).
She is an alum of Parakeet (2024) The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (2016) and Voices of Our Nation (2010). Michelle was a reader / assistant at The Kimberly Cameron Literary Agency, founder and host of the Borderlands Lectura series and The Kaleidoscope Reading Series.
She is a member of at Louis Place and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto and is the grant writer for Queer Rebels Productions.
Motherhood broke open Michelle's creativity in the best way possible--she started painting in the middle of the night during those months when 2 am and 2 pm are the same thing, and then kept at the middle of the night painting until her baby stopped napping. Whole new lines of inquiry and projects were born from these painting sessions. Michelle is writing a collection of nature-based mythology that explores the transition from girlhood to womanhood, often focusing on how the main character frees herself from those things that can happen--a friendship that hurts more than supports, a lie spread as truth, the lack of social support after assault--that can mire people in the past. These stories are full of talking animals, plants with supernatural powers, conscious water, omniscient mountains and the girls who can see and hear and interact with this magical landscape.
Michelle is also at work on a memoir about healing from Lyme Disease and a series of paintings of mother and earth goddesses and the plants associated with them.
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 teaches pilates at Bright Star, swims, climbs and is probably planning a backpacking trip.
