Michelle Orange

Michelle Orange was born and raised in Lon­don, Ontario. After grad­u­at­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of Toronto (dou­ble major in Eng­lish and film) she worked as a pro­ducer in the edu­ca­tion and children’s divi­sions of TVOntario.

In 2003 she moved to New York City to join the grad­u­ate film stud­ies pro­gram at New York Uni­ver­sity. First pub­lished in the Globe and Mail in 1998, Michelle’s writ­ing has since appeared in Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Nation, Book­fo­rum, the Vir­ginia Quar­terly Review, the New York Times, Slate, the Vil­lage Voice, and other publications.

She is the author of The Sicily Papers, pub­lished in 2006, and the edi­tor of From the Note­book: The Unwrit­ten Sto­ries of F. Scott Fitzger­ald, a col­lec­tion pub­lished in issue 22 of McSweeney’s.

She is a con­tribut­ing edi­tor at The Rum­pus.

This Is Run­ning For Your Life, an essay col­lec­tion, was pub­lished by FSG in Feb­ru­ary, 2013.