Michelle is a writer, editor, and attorney. Her fiction is included in The Forge Literary Magazine, Lunch Ticket, Riddle House Press, Roi Fainéant Press, Broken Antler Magazine, Feminine Collective, The Maudlin House, and others. Her work has been awarded a Gold Circle Award for fiction from the Columbia University Scholastic Press Association and is currently shortlisted for Fractured Literature's Fiction Open and a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee.

She holds a BFA in fiction writing and is the EIC of House of Arcanum, a journal of curated fiction. Her editing credits also include a print anthology of fiction and poetry, Open to Interpretation, Bath Spa University Press.

Michelle is also a combat veteran, helicopter pilot, recipient of the Bronze Star, and mother of a child with severe disabilities, all of which inform her work. Find her at www.michellereneebrady.com. Follow her on X @BradyMichelleR.