Michelle Collins Anderson

Michelle Collins Anderson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a journalism degree and spent the next fifteen years as a copywriter in advertising and PR agencies in St. Louis, Palo Alto, Denver and Houston before pursuing a freelance career. In 2013, she graduated with an MFA in Fiction from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.

Michelle’s short fiction has appeared in Nimrod International Journal #37 Awards Edition, Midwestern Gothic, Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, Literal Latté, bosque, The Lascaux Review, Pooled Ink, Literary Mama and The Green Hills Literary Lantern and is forthcoming in Storied Hills: A Journal of Contemporary Ozark Fiction. She also serves on the board of The Missouri Review. Her first novel, THE FLOWER SISTERS, is forthcoming from Kensington in May 2024.

Michelle and her husband, Clay, have three adult children and live in an old Victorian house in Liberty, Missouri, with a border collie and two sister cats.