Michelle Lewis

Michelle is the author of Spare (2025), which won the 2023 Barrow Street Press Prose Contest chosen by Mary Cappello. She is also the author of Animul/Flame (Conduit Books & Ephemera), which was the winner of the 2018 Marystina Santiestevan First Book Prize chosen by Bob Hicok. Animul/Flame was a finalist for the 2020 Maine Literary Award and winner of the 2020 Midwest Book Award. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Bennington Review, Massachusetts Review, and Denver Quarterly among others. She has written essays and reviews for Gettysburg Review, Rain Taxi, Electric Lit, Anomaly, and others. She is the recipient of two Maine Arts Commission grants, a Vermont Studio Center fellowship and residency, and a Monson Arts fellowship and residency, and she has been awarded residencies at The Studios of Key West and Studio Faire in Nérac, France. She holds an M.F.A. from the Stonecoast Writing Program, and she lives in Maine.