Michelle Richmond is the author of four books of fiction: the story collectionThe Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, and the novels Dream of the Blue Room,The Year of Fog and No One You Know.

Richmond has received the Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Associated Writing Programs Award, and the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize (read the winning story, The Great Amphibian.) Her stories and essays have appeared in Playboy, Glimmer Train, Oxford American, Salon, The Guardian, The Believer, Best American Fantasy, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and many magazines and anthologies. She also blogs for the San Francisco Chronicle.

She holds an MFA from the University of Miami, where she was a James Michener Fellow. She has taught in the MFA programs in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco, California College of the Arts, St. Mary’s College of Moraga, and Bowling Green State University. She currently serves on the executive council of The Authors Guild.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Richmond lives with her husband and son in Northern California. She is represented by Valerie Borchardt of Georges Borchardt, Inc.