Michelle Gillett has won poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and published work in numerous literary magazines. She is the author of Blinding the Goldfinches, winner of the Backwaters Press Poetry Prize, 2005; a chapbook, Rock &Spindle (Mad River Press), and The Green Cottage, winner of The Ledge 2010 Poetry Chapbook competition. She writes a regular op-ed column for The Berkshire Eagle, teaches writing workshops and is co-partner with Nina Ryan of g&r Editing, Writing and Book Development.
