Michelle Mitchell-Foust received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and she is the author of two poetry books, Circassian Girl (Elixir Press) and Imago Mundi (Elixir Press) and two chapbooks, Poets at Seven (Sutton Hoo Press) and Exile (Sangha Press). Her anthology, Poems Dead and Undead, that she co-edited with Tony Barnstone, was published by Everyman Press/Random House in 2014. Poems Human and Inhuman is forthcoming from Random House/Everyman Press in 2015.
Her work has been anthologized in Wild Flowers Every Year (James Publishing), Chapter and Verse (Horror Writers Association), New Voices: University and College Poetry Prizes (The Academy of American Poets), The Best of Writers at Work Anthology (Pecan Grove Press), and The Missouri Arts Council Biennial Anthology (The Missouri Review), She has edited several literary and scholarly journals, including The Missouri Review and Oral Tradition. She was an American Poet in Residence at the Poets’ House in Donegal, Ireland for ten years as well as being a founder/coordinator of the Casa Romantica Reading Series, which received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in its sixth year.