Michelle Brittan has work forthcoming in the journals Calyx and Nimrod, and is the title poet for Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25, an anthology edited by Naomi Shihab Nye (GreenWillow, 2010). She recently won the Ernesto Trejo/Academy of American Poets prize judged by Philip Levine.
Born in San Francisco of mixed white and Malaysian heritage, Michelle has also lived in Tacoma, Washington. She received her BA in sociology from the University of Puget Sound in 2006, after which she conducted fieldwork in Kerala, India. In Tacoma she worked as an advocate for consumers of social services at the city and state levels as well as in the non-profit sector.
Michelle moved in 2008 to attend California State University, Fresno, where she is a candidate in the MFA program. She currently teaches undergraduate poetry, interns with The Normal School, and co-edits San Joaquin Review.
