Michelle Richmond is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller The Year of Fog, No One You Know, Dream of the Blue Room, and the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress.
She is the recipient of the 2009 Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, and the Associated Writing Programs Award. Two of her novels have been finalists for the Northern California Book Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Playboy, Oxford American, Salon, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, and elsewhere.
Michelle 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.
A native of Mobile, Alabama, Michelle lives with her husband and son in San Francisco. She is represented by Valerie Borchardt of Georges Borchardt, Inc. She is currently at work on a new novel, which will be published by Bantam. Her debut novel, DREAM OF THE BLUE ROOM (2003), will also be available in a new paperback edition from Bantam next year.
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You’ll find some of Michelle’s short stories and essays online here.
And as long as you got this far, you might as well know that this is the song my husband hooked me with, way back when in Arkansas.
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