Michelle is a Brazilian and American Worcester-based writer, artist, and teacher. She is English Department chair at an independent school in Worcester, MA, and director of the Young Writers Conference.

She was a runner-up for the Luso-American fellowship at Disquiet International, and attended the conference in 2023. She participated in the NYC Writing Project’s Creative Writing Lab first as a student (2021-22), and then as a co-teacher (2022).

Michelle has self-published two poetry collections (Performance Artist and Princess of the Hegemon) and was featured in ShiftPoetry in the Time of Covid-19. 

Her collages on fragmentation and grief were on view during the “Ayer, Hoy y Siempre” exhibition at the JMAC gallery in Worcester, MA in October of 2022. Selections from series Historias de um Grande Amigo is forthcoming in issue 45 of The Worcester Review.