In Linda Michel-Cassidy's stories born of the mountains in the American Southwest, characters discover, reckon with, and often seek to escape the rural landscapes that made them, fighting their way toward just getting by.
Linda Michel-Cassidy lived for 15 years in voluntary exile in rural Northern New Mexico. She is a writer, critic, teacher, editor, and visual artist. She is a senior book reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly, where she also contributes criticism, and for several years, was a contributing editor at Entropy Magazine. She holds an MFA in fiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and another, in visual arts, from the California College of the Arts. She was a cross-disciplinary resident at Gullkistan in Laugarvatn, Iceland, and a visual arts resident at Brazier's Park in Ipsden, England. Michel-Cassidy is a mediocre skier and has recently taken up open-water swimming. She currently lives between Arroyo Seco, New Mexico, and a houseboat in Sausalito, California.
