Michelle Blake wrote a trilogy of mysteries, with Lily Connor, and her chapbook, INTO THE WIDE AND STARTLING WORLD, was selected for the New Women's Voices Series at Finishing Line Press. In 2014, she published a collaboration with visual artist Fran Forman, in which she wrote a series of poems and a fable. She has published poems and essays in MORE Magazine, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Banyan Press Anthology, Cedar Creek Review, Prairie Schooner, Solstice Lit Journal, Cider Press Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Asheville Poetry Review and many other magazines and anthologies.
""Signs and sacraments abound--'lights switched on at dusk like wishes for night to rise, ' 'the grey dust of day on sills and quilts'--in Michelle Blake's acute and beautifully made poems...Blake has heard Roethke's invocation to ""live in perpetual great astonishment,"" for her compassionate, luminous poems transport us through glib and difficult times 'into the wide and startling world.'""--Catherine MacDonald, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize for Rousing the Machiner