Michelle Champagne (she/her) recently earned her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina – Greensboro. She holds degrees from Mercer University and Wake Forest University, where she was also the Graduate Fellow for Fiction Collective 2. She is the Editor-in-Chief & Flash Editor of Susurrus, A Literary Arts Magazine of the American South and an Associate Editor at Bull City Press. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Follow on Bluesky.