Michele Morano's essays have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Best American Essays 2006, the Georgia Review, the Missouri Review, Under the Sun, and The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction.


Honors and awards for her writing have come from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the American Association of University Women, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Crab Orchard Review, and the Illinois Arts Council, among others.

Michele holds a Ph.D. in English and an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa. She lives in Chicago, where she is Associate Professor of English at DePaul University.
 
She is currently at work on new essays and a coming-of-age novel about a girl whose summer job involves making fireworks, literally.