---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 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 and The Kaleidoscope Reading Series.
She is currently in Beth Picken's Parakeet writing program, a member of at Louis Place and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
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, The Journey Home, is a collection of short stories that blend Aztec and Catholic mythology, family lore and current events. 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 a wild, unexpected 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 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 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 and The Kaleidoscope Reading Series.
She is currently in Beth Picken's Parakeet writing program, a member of at Louis Place and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
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, The Journey Home, is a collection of short stories that blend Aztec and Catholic mythology, family lore and current events. 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 a wild, unexpected 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.
