Bio

Michelle Richmond is the author of the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2001), the critically acclaimed novels Dream of the Blue Room (2003) and No One You Know (2008), and the New York Times and international bestseller The Year of Fog (2007).

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 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. In addition to her personal blog (see bottom of main page for blog entries), she writes a City Brights blog for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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.