Michelle Ross is the author of four story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (2017), winner of the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and Finalist for the 2017 Foreward INDIES Book of the Year Award for Short Stories; Shapeshifting, winner of the 2020 Stillhouse Press Short Story Award (2021); They Kept Running, winner of the 2021 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction (2022); and Don’t Take This the Wrong Way (EastOver Press 2025), which she coauthored with Kim Magowan.
Her fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Epiphany, Greensboro Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Shenandoah, swamp pink, TriQuarterly, Witness, and other venues. Her fiction has been anthologized in Flash Fiction America; Best Small Fictions 2021 and 2023; Best Microfiction 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024; and the Wigleaf Top 50 2019 and 2022, among other anthologies. It received special mention in the Pushcart anthology and was spotlighted in Best Small Fictions 2023. Her work has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hypatia-in-the-Woods, and The Rice Place.
She is an editor at 100 Word Story.
A native of Texas, she received her B.A. from Emory University and her M.F.A and M.A. from Indiana University. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and son.