Michelle Detorie grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. She currently lives in Goleta, California where she edits WOMB, an online magazine for poetries by women, and Hex Presse.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in How2, Chelsea, Bird Dog, EOAGH, Otoliths, Blackbird, Jacket, Verse Daily, The Notre Dame Review, Typo, Dusie, POOL, Pindeldyboz, DIAGRAM, La Petite Zine, Cranky, Caketrain, The Tiny, The Potomac Review, FOURSQUARE, Confrontation, kadar koli, No Tell Motel, The Southern Poetry Review, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel(2007), Poetry East, Don't Leave Hungry, and Letters to the World. She has several poetry manuscripts in various stages of completion, one of which consists exclusively of poems about divination.
Her poem "Feral Thing" is available as tinyside # 9 from Big Game Books and a collection of visual poems, Our Clean Heart, was published as a special edition of Foursquare. A chapbook, DAPHNMOANCY, was published by Peter Ganick's Small Chapbook Project and another chapbook, Bellum Letters, was published as part of the Dusie Chapbook Kollektiv. A third chapbook, A Coincidence of Wants, is available from Dos Press. Her fourth chapbook, Ode to Industry, was recently published with the Dusie Chapbook Kollektive. How Hate Got Hand, a pamphlet about humans and animals, was recently published by eohippus labs.
Current projects include Spectre (a manuscript of poems), Feral Thing (another manuscript of poems) Mirror Girls (a prose-poem memoir-ish thing), Diary (a novel for teens), and Daphnomancy, an improvised music and text project with guitarist Kurt Newman. She also makes visual and new-media poems. You can see some of them here and here.
Michelle has taught writing at Johns Hopkins, Loyola College, and Texas State University. In addition to her work with college students, she has also taught middle and high school students, most notably at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and the Katherine Anne Porter Young Writers Program. She used to live in Kyle, Texas, where she was the 2004-2006 Writer-in-Residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House and Literary Center. In 2007, Michelle was a National Endowment for the Arts literary fellow. She has an MA from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from Texas State University, where she held the Rose Fellowship.
When she is not writing, designing, or editing, Michelle teaches writing at Santa Barbara City College and works with injured seabirds through the Santa Barbaraa Wildlife Care Network. You can read an interview here and here and reviews of her work here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Current projects include Spectre (a manuscript of poems), Feral Thing (another manuscript of poems) Mirror Girls (a prose-poem memoir-ish thing), Diary (a novel for teens), and Daphnomancy, an improvised music and text project with guitarist Kurt Newman. She also makes visual and new-media poems. You can see some of them here and here.
Michelle has taught writing at Johns Hopkins, Loyola College, and Texas State University. In addition to her work with college students, she has also taught middle and high school students, most notably at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and the Katherine Anne Porter Young Writers Program. She used to live in Kyle, Texas, where she was the 2004-2006 Writer-in-Residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House and Literary Center. In 2007, Michelle was a National Endowment for the Arts literary fellow. She has an MA from the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from Texas State University, where she held the Rose Fellowship.
When she is not writing, designing, or editing, Michelle teaches writing at Santa Barbara City College and works with injured seabirds through the Santa Barbaraa Wildlife Care Network. You can read an interview here and here and reviews of her work here, here, here, here, here, and here.
