Michelle is a writer, editor, and attorney. Her fiction is included in Arts & Letters, The Forge Literary Magazine, Lunch Ticket, Riddle Fence 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, was a runner up or finalist for Fractured Literature's Fiction Open, the Wright Prize, and Riddle Fence Press Annual Prize, and the W.S. Porter Prize from Regal House Publishing, and is currently a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee x2.

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.