Michelle Ross

Michelle Ross is the author of five story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You, winner of the 2016 Moon City Press Fiction Award and Finalist for the INDIES Foreward Book of the Year Award in Short Fiction; Shapeshifting, winner of the 2020 Stillhouse Press Fiction Award (2021); They Kept Running, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction (2022); Don't Take This the Wrong Way, cowritten with Kim Magowan (EastOver Press 2025); and Squash, forthcoming as an Editors' Choice selection from Moon City Press in 2027. Her fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, as well as been anthologized in the North Anthology Flash Fiction America; Best Small Fictions 2021 and 2023 (where it was spotlighted); Best Microfiction 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2026; and the Wigleaf Top 50 2019 and 2022, among other anthologies. Her writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Electric Literature, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, Witness, and elsewhere. It's been supported by Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Hambidge Center, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods. A native of Texas, she lives in Tucson, Arizona, where she works in EdTech and serves as editor for 100 Word Story.