Michelle Blake has published poetry and essays in Tin House, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, MORE Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Parents and others. Her essay “A Fable for Our Times” won the Solstice Nonfiction Award for 2015. She has also published three critically acclaimed novels—The Tentmaker, Earth Has No Sorrow and The Book of Light (Putnam Penguin). Her chapbook of poems, Into the Wide and Startling World, was awarded publication in the New Women’s Voices competition in 2012 (Finishing Line Press). In 2014, her collaborative project with photo-montage artist Fran Forman, Escape Artist, was published by Schiffer. She has twice received residency grants at Vermont Studio Center. In addition, she directed the Goddard MFA Writing Program and founded and directed the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, and has taught writing at Goddard College, Stanford University and Tufts University.
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http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/43072/lost-found-michelle-blake-on-sarah-orne-jewett.html
http://solsticelitmag.org/content/fable-times/
http://solsticelitmag.org/in-conversation-with-michelle-blake/
http://www.michelleblakewriter.com/news/grown-children-essay-in-lhj.html