Michelle Blake is the author of three critically acclaimed novels—The Tentmaker, Earth Has No Sorrow and The Book of Light (Putnam Penguin). In addition, she’s published poetry and essays in Tin House, The New York Times, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Solstice Literary Magazine, MORE Magazine, Mezzo Cammin and others. Her chapbook of poems, Into the Wide and Startling World, was awarded publication in the New Women’s Voices competition in 2012 (Finishing Line Press). In 2014, her collaborative project with photo-montage artist Fran Forman, Escape Artist, was published by Schiffer. Her essay “A Fable for Our Times” won the Solstice Nonfiction Award for 2015. 

She was a Resident Writer at the Siena Arts Institute and has also received residency grants from Vermont Studio Center and the Hambidge Center for the Arts. In addition, she has taught writing at Goddard College, Stanford University and Tufts University, and she served as director of both the Goddard and the Warren Wilson MFA programs.