About

Short Bio:

Michelle Donahue has fiction recently published in Shenandoah, About Place Journal, and Brink. She is an assistant professor at UNC Wilmington and associate editor of Ecotone. She holds a PhD in creative writing from the University of Utah and her writing has been supported by the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Long Bio:

Michelle Donahue is a writer, editor, professor, amateur surfer, and lover of all bodies of water. She primarily writes fiction, but also dabbles in poetry and nonfiction. Her writing investigates the vivid capacity of creative work to influence and inform the ways humans understand their relationships with more-than-human nature.

 

Her writing has been published in South Dakota Review, Sycamore Review, CutBank, Arts & Letters, and others. She received the Editor’s Prize in Nonfiction from The Porter House Review, a Short Fiction Award from Psychopomp, and her writing has been supported by the Kentucky Foundation for Women.

 

Michelle received a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where she was a Steffensen Cannon Fellow. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Environment from Iowa State, and received a BS in Environmental Biology and Creative Writing from Beloit College. She has previously worked as Prose Editor at Quarterly West and The Adroit Journal, and Managing Editor for Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment.

 

She was born and raised in Southern California, but has since lived in Ecuador, England, Wisconsin, Iowa, Utah, Oregon,and Kentucky. She currently resides on the coast in NC where she is an assistant professor of creative writing and publishing at UNC Wilmington and is associate editor of Ecotone.