Michelle grew up in Los Angeles near the ocean.  A fourth generation Angeleno, she wrote poems in college at U.C. Berkeley where she studied theatre.  She enjoyed careers as a dancer and a chef before marrying Phil Abrams, the actor, and giving birth to their two beautiful children.  In 2001 she began writing and publishing in earnest often scribbling poems in parking lots while she waited for her son to finish school and her young daughter napped in the backseat. 

Michelle's poems have been reprinted on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily,nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Prizes, and have been published or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative Magazine,The Cortland Review, diode, River Styx, The L.A. Weekly, Linebreak, Rattle, Sou'wester, Anti-Southeast Review, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, Many Mountains Moving, Silk Road, Gargoyle, Slipstream, Phoebe, Mudfish, Clackamas Literary Review, Dogwood, Pearl, and others. 

She won the Glimmer Train Poetry Open (2003), the Poets on Parnassus (2004), and Rock and Sling's Virginia Brendemuehl (2005), poetry competitions.  Individual poems have been finalists for numerous national poetry contests as has her full length book "Good Friday Kiss."

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She is also pleased to announce that Finishing Line Press published her chapbook, Blue Laws in December, 2007.

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