Michelle Richmond

Michelle Richmond was born and raised in Alabama and has made her home for seventeen years in Northern California, where she lives with her husband and son. Michelle is the author of six books, including the political thriller GOLDEN STATE, which imagines modern-day California on the brink of secession from the United States, and the New York Times bestseller THE YEAR OF FOG. Her first book was the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2001), which won the AWP Award for Short Fiction and was published by University of Massachusetts Press. Her latest story collection, HUM, received the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize and was published by Fiction Collective 2. Michelle's new novel, THE MARRIAGE PACT, will be published by Bantam in 2017, with foreign editions forthcoming in 26 languages and film rights optioned to Twentieth Century Fox. Michelle is the founder of Fiction Attic Press, a micro press dedicated to discovering and publishing flash fiction, short stories, memoir, and novels by new and established writers.