Michelle is a lifelong resident of New Providence, NJ and a graduate of Muhlenberg College (Allentown, PA) where she earned a degree in English and a certification in Elementary Education. After college, she spent a year abroad, teaching English at public elementary schools in southern France, where she re-discovered her love of writing while keeping a detailed travel blog and chronicling la vie francaise.

Her current interests and hobbies include art and art history, baking, bike-riding, party-planning, NY Yankee baseball, and learning new things.