Michelle Lewis Michelle is the recipient of the 2018 Marystina Stantiestevan First Book Prize. Her book, Animul/Flame, will be published by Conduit Books & Ephemera & Ephemera. She has worked as a writer, editor, and digital marketer. Her poetry has appeared in many journals, including Bennington Review, Indiana Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Denver Quarterly, and her reviews and essays have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Electric Lit, and Rain Taxi among others. She is a contributing writer for Anomaly. She earned her M.F.A. from the Stonecoast Creative Writing Program. She lives in Maine.

Books by Michelle Lewis:

Other poems on the web by Michelle Lewis:
Three poems
Three poems
"The Funniest Thing You Ever Heard"
Two poems
"Drowning"

Michelle Lewis's Website.

Michelle Lewis on Twitter.

About Animul/Flame:

"This is the book that wouldn’t let go of me."
—Bob Hicok

"This extraordinary debut is the voice we’ve been afraid to hear. She survives the ruin, the night, and we survive through her."
—Joshua Poteat

"Animul/Flame is charged by an emotional integrity that yields exacting bite and insight. This is a marvelous debut."
—Terrance Hayes