Bio
Michele at her book-launch party for Conversations During Sleep, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, New York City, May 20, 1998
Michele Wolf was raised in Florida, spent many years in New York, and now lives in Maryland outside Washington, D.C. An editor, writer, and teacher, she holds degrees from Boston University and Columbia. Her latest poetry book is Peacocks on the Streets (Broadstone Books). Her previous collections are Immersion (The Word Works), selected by Denise Duhamel for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection; Conversations During Sleep (Anhinga Press), winner of the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, judged by Peter Meinke; and The Keeper of Light (Painted Bride Quarterly Poetry Chapbook Series), chosen by J.T. Barbarese.
Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Poetry, The Hudson Review, and North American Review, and on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, poets.org, and the Poetry Foundation website (Poem of the Day). She has written articles, essays, and reviews for Smithsonian, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and other publications. 
A former contributing editor for Poet Lore and Kirkus Reviews, she has received a Maryland State Arts Council literary arts Independent Artist Award. Among her other honors are an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award and fellowships from Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland. She was also a National Arts Club Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where she later served on the administrative staff.
As a featured poet or lecturer, Michele has been a guest at Johns Hopkins University, American University, Hood College, the University of New Mexico, Florida State University, California State University, Long Beach, Whittier College, and elsewhere. Since 2002 she has taught at
The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She has given over a hundred readings — at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the Miami Book Fair, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, the Library of Congress, and bookstores, arts centers, and other venues nationwide. Her poetry papers will be part of the Washington Writers’ Archive, housed at the George Washington University’s Gelman Library. She and her husband reside in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Their daughter lives nearby.
- Read Michele's bio and poems on the Poetry Foundation website »here.
- Read an interview with Michele when she was the featured poet in the Hood College Community Reading Series »here.
- Read a profile of Michele »here.
- Read Michele’s piece “Poetry Readings: The Art of Creating a Poet-Audience Bond” on The Writer’s Center’s blog »here.
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