Philosophy 135, 001 - Spring 2014 Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Michelle Richmond is author of No One You Know, the New York Times bestseller The Year of Fog, award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, and the novel Dream of the Blue Room, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Mississippi Review Fiction Prize, and the Associated Writing Programs Award. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, Playboy, Oxford American, Salon, The Kenyon Review, and The Missouri Review. Michelle holds an MFA from the University of Miami, where she was a James Michener Fellow. She taught in MFA programs at University of San Francisco, California College of the Arts, St. Marys College, and Bowling Green State University. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Michelle lives in San Francisco and writes full time.