Michelle is a writer, editor, and attorney. Her fiction is included in The Forge Literary Magazine, Arts & Letters, Lunch Ticket, and others. She has been awarded a Gold Circle Award for fiction from the Columbia University SPA and a finalist for Fractured Lit’s Fiction Open, the Wright Prize, and Regal House Publishing’s W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections. She is currently nominated for two 2025 Pushcart Prizes. She holds a BFA in fiction writing and is EIC of House of Arcanum.

Selected work
- Fiction
7
- Nonfiction
1

New Fiction by Michelle R. Brady: Thirty Broken Birds - Wrath-Bearing Tree
The Wrath-Bearing Tree, 2024

Michelle R. Brady
In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction, 2025

Flossing Her Legs - Michelle R. Brady — Bulb Culture Collective
Bulb Culture Collective, 2025

The Four Deaths of James Edward
Feminine Collective, 2024

Hiding Between Objects
Umbrella Factory Magazine, 2024

Waiting for Bones the Tigers Left - Lunch Ticket
Lunch Ticket, 2024

Dead Things I Gave Birth To
fractured literary, 2025

Captive Monsters - The Forge Literary Magazine
The Forge, 2024