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
Jupiter Begging
Consequence, 2025
Four Stages of Decomposition
Black Warrior Review, 2025
One Hundred and Twenty Years
Crab Orchard Review, 2025
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