fiction

The Second Coming of the STASSIS Goat.  Short Story. Copper Nickel (Spring 2012). Honorable Mention, Copper Nickel Fiction Contest.

Backfire.  Short Story. Best New American Voices 2006.  Editors Jane Smiley, John Kulka, Natalie Danford. Avery and Jule Hopwood Award for Short Fiction.

selected fiction honors

Hopwood Award, Fiction. University of Michigan

Copper Nickel Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention

Salamander Fiction Contest, Finalist

Calvino Prize,  Finalist

other projects

NEW Project Announcement. 2022: Michelle is delighted and proud to announce that she will be collaborating with the compelling composer Frank Horvat on a song for piano and voice that will be one of the 13 songs in Fractures: a song cycle about fracking.

Fractures has support from the Ontario Arts Council and amazing soprano Meredith Hall, who commissioned the work. Learn more here.

Vocal Music. Walden in Winter. Text by Michelle Deatrick, Music by Michael Djupstrom. Performed at Kerrytown Concert House, Ann Arbor, Michigan and Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia.

Book Review. Nature, Terror and Renewal in Zilka Joseph’s What Dread. Switchback.

Nonfiction. Let’s Go: California and Hawaii. Several Chapters. Harvard Student Agency.