I am a poet and creative writer who draws inspiration from the natural and the spiritual. My incredible story of healing from lifelong chronic illness deeply shapes my writing as well. My poems have appeared in The Path to Kindness, How to Love the World, Healing the Divide, Birchsong Anthology, Third Wednesday, among others. I live in Southern Vermont with my husband and four children. In my coaching work, I’m a passionate advocate for accessing our creativity as a main source for healing our minds, bodies and spirits. Please follow the links below to read some of my work.
Creative Coaching
I love the wild journey of living into creative expression! In Creative Coaching you will pursue your creative voice and projects as you deeply nourish yourself in the powerful setting of a coaching conversation. You’ll identify and work towards the creative shifts you want to make while exploring any roadblocks that stand in your way. As you live into your creative voice, you’ll access deeper parts of yourself, which helps you build a stronger relationship with your creativity.
Learning how to make creative choices that align with your values, identity and deeper purpose can launch you into the creative life you long for. You’ll set your creativity free as you challenge old thought patterns, identify fears that keep you stuck, and make choices that expand your creative self.
Ready to get started?! Fill out my Creative Coaching form found at this link and then set up a free discovery call to see if coaching together is a good fit!
Published Poems
Poetry Readings
- “The Girl Who Drew Memories” Art Exhibition by Gail Winbury, Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont. December 3, 2022- February 25, 2023. Michelle’s poem, “Her Many Losses”, is displayed next to and inspired by Winbury’s painting, Her Sweater. The exhibition focuses on childhood memory. The opening is taking place on December 3, 2022, from 2pm-4pm, which includes a poetry reading by the small group of poets that SVAC invited to write original poetry in response to Gail Winbury’s “The Other Side” series. With these painting-poem pairings, visitors will engage in a multidisciplinary experience which will hopefully lead them to reflect on their own lives and memories.
- The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy poetry reading at Battenkill Books in Cambridge, NY on Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 7pm, in person and on zoom.
- Battenkill Books Healing the Divide poetry reading. Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 7pm. 15 East Main Street, Cambridge, NY.
- Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection Earth Day Poetry Reading at The Left Bank in North Bennington, VT. April 12, 2019, 6pm.
- Family Affair Cabaret at the Bennington Performing Arts Center in Bennington, VT. January 26, 2019.
- Birchsong reading at the Dorset Public Library in Dorset, VT. July 27, 2018.
- Birchsong Book Launch and poets reading at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT. June 2, 2018
- James Crews’s Book Launch of Telling My Father, at the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, VT. February 9, 2018
