Michele Lovell was born in Washington, D.C., moved to Oregon at the age of 15, and has spent the last ten months in rural Arizona, writing. She has had poems published in The Sonora Review, a story published in Hip Mama and the Hip Mama Anthology, and two stories that were Glimmer Train finalists, one in the April 2009 Family Matters contest and one in the Winter 2012 Glimmer Train Fiction Open contest. She has worked with children in the mental health field for the past 25 years.