Michelle Courtney Berry

As the second Poet Laureate of Tompkins County and a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Community Arts Partnership Award for Fiction and a Cave Canem Fellowship in Poetry, Michelle is a poet, playwright, humorist, and non-fiction writer, who aims to voice the unspoken narratives that resonate with us all. In addition to being the first poet published by Horticulture, other publishers of her work include Northwestern University Press, Random House, Obsidian II, nocturnes: a re(view) of the literary arts, Paterson Literary Review, Oxford Magazine, and IthacaLit.  [email protected]  michellecourtneyberry.com