MICHELLE ROSS

Fiction

• “The Classification of Living Things.” Outlook Springs (forthcoming): print.
• “Play It Safe.” Cream City Review (forthcoming): print.
• “Keeper Four.” Emrys Journal (forthcoming): print.
• “Paula Watt.” Witness: print.
• “Costs.” Juked: online.
• “Duck, Duck, Owl.” X-R-A-Y: online.
• “Sowing.” Fractured Lit: online.
• “The Special.” Tiny Molecules: online.
• “Mirrors.” New World Writing: online.
• “Confession.” Pithead Chapel: online.
• “Windows.” Monkeybicycle: online.
• “The Natural Order of Things.” Another Chicago Magazine: online.
• “Cake or Pie.” Wigleaf: online.
• “A Gray Inchworm on a Gray Sidewalk.” 100 Word Story: online.
• “Experiments with Living Subjects.” Nashville Review: online.
• “Doing Something is Better Than Doing Nothing.” BULL: online.
• “Eden.” MoonPark Review: online.
• “Swarming.” The Forge: online.
• “Dendrochronology.” FlashFlood: online (originally published in Scoundrel Time)
• “How I Learned About Evolution.” Okay Donkey: online.
• “A Girl Scout is Useful, Thrifty, Cheerful, Courteous, Clean in Thought, and Above All, Loyal.” DIAGRAM: online.
• “Breath Versus Sound.” On the Seawall: online
• “Fishbowl.” Moon City Review: print.
• “Impulses.” Tiny Molecules: online.
• “Hostages.” Ghost Parachute: online.
• “Snapshot.” Atlas and Alice: online.
• “Story #2: Sketch.” Queen Mob’s Teahouse: online.
• “Debbie’s Parents.” Cease, Cows: online.
• “Snow White with Goats.” Wigleaf: online.
• “Barrel Cactus,” “Common Denominator,” and “Dead Plant.” FRiGG: online.
• “Resurrection.” The Southeast Review: online.
• “Gestation.” The Pinch Journal: print.
• “Palate Cleanser.” Bending Genres: online.
• “Knife Rules.” Coffin Bell Journal: online.
• “Life Cycle of an Ungrateful Daughter.” New South: print.
• “Three-Week Checkup.” Alaska Quarterly Review: print.
• “Dollhouse Furniture.” The Nottingham Review: online.
• “Dendrochronology.” Scoundrel Time: online.
• “Fertilizer.” Pithead Chapel: online.
• “Dwellings.” New Flash Fiction Review: online.
• “Bargain.” Litro: online.
• “Migration.” Fictive Dream: online.
• “Deposition.” Milk Candy Review: online.
• “Manhandle.” Jellyfish Review: online.
• “The Sand and the Sea.” Greek translation, Planodian: online (originally published in SmokeLong Quarterly)
• “How We Got Here.” BULL: online.
• “Dee Bukowski.” Epiphany: online.
• “No Knees.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: online.
• “The Pregnancy Game.” Fanzine: online.
• “Sockets.” Gone Lawn: online.
• “Muscle Memory.” Hobart: online.
• “Things My Son Knows.” jmww: online.
• “The Tasters.” Queen Mob’s Tea House: online.
• “Frogs in Captivity.” Spelk: online.
• “Binary Code.” Monkeybicycle: online.
• “An Arm or a Palm Frond or a Boot.” Pidgeonholes: online.
• “Carrot.” formercactus: online.
• “Tea Kettles.” Okay Donkey: online.
• “A Mouth is a House for Teeth.” Colorado Review: print.
• “Night Bloom.” The Forge:online.
• “Cubist Mother.” 100 Word Story: online.
• “The Point.” Longleaf Review: online.
• “The Sand and the Sea.” SmokeLong Quarterly: online.
• “My Husband Is Always Losing Things.” Cleaver Magazine: online.
• “I’m Just Talking About Water.” Occulum: online.
• “The Funny Thing.” Nashville Review: online.
• “High Ground.” New World Writing: online.
• “The Easy Way.” New Flash Fiction Review: online.
• “Key Concepts in Ecology.” CRAFT: online. (originally published in The Common)
• “Safeway.” Tahoma Literary Review: print.
• “One or Two?” Passages North: print and online.
• “Before After.” Five:2:One #thesideshow: online.
• “Return.” New South: online.
• “Before and After.” Fanzine: online.
• “If My Mother Was the Final Girl.” Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading: online. (originally published in Gulf Coast)
• “Men Decide They Want Something.” Hobart: online.
• “Why Science Lessons That Involve Potatoes Give Me Grief.” Threadcount: online.
• “Predators.” Synaesthesia Magazine – We Are Women Issue: print.
• “A Treatise on the Broken Heart Idiom.” Spelk: online.
• “Business Enough.” Knee-Jerk: online.
• “Kong’s Dream.” TriQuarterly: online.
• “The Difference Between Me and Everyone Else.” The Forge: online.
• “Fish Story.” New World Writing: online.
• “Killer Tomatoes.” Corium Magazine: online.
• “Parts We Can Live Without.” Arroyo Literary Review: print.
• “Glow.” Arroyo Literary Review: print.
• “When the Cottonmouths Come to Feed.” Cream City Review: print.
• “An Impromptu Lesson on Black Holes.” The Indianola Review: online.
• “Accomplice or Hostage.” Jellyfish Review: online.
• “What We Expect to See.” Paper Darts: online.
• “The Scream Queen Is Bored.” Angels Flight literary west: online.
• “Winkelsucher.” Storm Cellar: print and online.
• “Feng Shui.“  Bodega: online.
• “Tobe’s Baby.” Jellyfish Review: online.
• “Tina’s Herculean Labor.” Broad!: online.
• “Hail Satan.” Hermeneutic Chaos: online.
• “Galactagogues.” Necessary Fiction: online. (also available on Great Jones Street)
• “Phainopepla.” Cease, Cows: online.
• “Stories People Tell.” Superstition Review: online.
• “Pam’s Head.” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: online.
• “Rattlesnake Roundup.” Moon City Review: print.
• “Lessons.” Cleaver Magazine: online.
• “Virgins.” Arroyo Literary Review: print.
• “Three Ways to Eat Quince.” Word Riot: online.
• “If You Were a Serial Killer.” The Adroit Journal: online.
• “Prologue.” Gravel: online.
• “Key Concepts in Ecology.” The Common: print and online.
• “Like Pulling Teeth.” Necessary Fiction: online.
• “Unit 7: Exploring Fossils.” Synaesthesia Magazine: online.
• “Sex Ed.” Bird’s Thumb: online.
• “Atoms.” Hobart: online.
• “Of All the Animals in the Aquarium.” SmokeLong Quarterly: online.
• “Kinetic Theory.” Fiction Southeast: online.
• “Transactions.” Fiction Southeast: online.
• “Cinema Verite.” Sixfold: online.
• “The Nature of Light.” Blue Lake Review: online.
• “Alien Eye.” The Nervous Breakdown: online.
• “How Many Ways Can You Die on a Bus?” Slower Traffic Keep Right, a Main Street Rag Publishing short fiction anthology: print. (also available on Great Jones Street)
• “Ventriloquy.” Pebble Lake Review: print.
• “Dear Chester.” Faultline: print.
• “If My Mother Was the Final Girl.” Gulf Coast: print. (also available on Great Jones Street)

Creative Nonfiction and Essays

• I wrote this writing lesson on hoarding and the fear of scarcity for Pidgeonholes.
• “Some Things Your Third Grader Needs to Know.” JMWW: online.
• I wrote a short craft essay about my story “Key Concepts in Ecology” and about the breakdown of the binary of the strange and familiar (and the fantastic and the realistic) for CRAFT Literary.
• Kim Magowan and I wrote a collaborative piece about our collaborative writing process for the Superstition Review blog.
• I wrote a short essay for The Story Prize blog — Michelle Ross Asks: Is a Story Ever Finished?
• I wrote about my first story publication for Barrelhouse’s My Big Little Break.
• I compared my book to some strange things for Monkeybicycle — If My Book: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You.
• Some of my thoughts on cover letters and what not to do, Atticus Review blog– Uncovering the Cover Letter
• I wrote a blog post for Bird’s Thumb — Submit Your Best Work Only.
• I wrote a little essay about Why I Write for Fiction Southeast.

The Weekly Atticus (more essays)

• “Don’t Let ‘Temporary’ Ruin Your Writing,” May 15, 2021
• “Dial Your Writing Energy Up By 1,000,” March 6, 2021
• “How Do You Bring Play to Your Writing,” December 12, 2020
• “Who Gives You Inspiration?” October 24, 2020
• “Improvise with Your Writing,” July 18, 2020
• “Tend to Your Garden of Words,” May 30, 2020
• “The Work Now is to Pay Attention,” April 4, 2020
• “Your Writing Training Schedule,” October 26, 2019
• “Write Without Constraint,” July 27, 2019
• “How to Measure Your Tenacity Quotient,” May 27, 2019
• “Are You Out of Your Mind?” March 9, 2019
• “Make a Whipped Cream Smiley Face on Your Writing Pancake,” December 8, 2018
• “Check Your Writerly Vitals,” July 14, 2018
• “Find Your Forgotten Frankensteins,” May 19, 2018
• “Without Our Art, We Starve,” March 3, 2018
• “We’ve Got Your Resolutions Right Here,” December 23, 2017
• “Escape from this Beautiful Prison with Us,” October 14, 2017
• “Relax into the Vast Emptiness,” July 22, 2017
• “Is Ambition Making You Crazy?” June 3, 2017

Interviews

• I interviewed Shyla Jones for SmokeLong Quarterly.
• I interviewed Dan Crawley about his novella in flash, Straight Down the Road, for Cleaver Magazine.
• I interviewed Kim Magowan about her novel The Light Source for The Lit Pub.
• I interviewed L.W. Nicholson for SmokeLong Quarterly.
• I interviewed Caleb Michael Sarvis about his story collection Dead Aquarium at The Lit Pub.
• I interviewed Alice Hatcher about her debut novel, The Wonder That Was Ours, for Fiction Writers Review.
• I interviewed Sherrie Flick about her new story collection Thank Your Lucky Stars for Fiction Writers Review.
• I interviewed Kim Magowan about her story collection Undoing for Fiction Writers Review.
• I interviewed Geoff Kronik for SmokeLong Quarterly.
• I interviewed Nickalus Rupert for SmokeLong Quarterly.
• I interviewed Dana Diehl about her book Our Dreams Might Align for Grist Journal.
• I interviewed Chelsea Harris for SmokeLong Quarterly.
• I interviewed Siel Ju about her story collection Cake Time for Fiction Writers Review.
• I interviewed Melissa Scholes Young for SmokeLong Quarterly.

Reviews

• I reviewed Jennifer Wortman’s story collection This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love at The Rupture
• I reviewed Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s story collection Sabrina and Corina for Fiction Writers Review.
• I reviewed Maryse Meijer’s new story collection Rag for Fiction Writers Review.