Michelle Richmond Biography
Michelle Richmond is the author of
No One You Know,
the New York Times bestseller
The Year of Fog,
the award-winning story collection
The Girl in the Fall-Away
Dress, and the novel
Dream of the Blue Room,
which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award.
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. 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. She now writes full time.
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 in
2010.
This biography was last updated on 05/23/2009.
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