Michelle Ross

SHAPESHIFTING: Stories

Fiction | Short Story

Nov. 2021

“In Ross’s stories, being a parent is in turns selfish, cruel, tragic, terrifying, clinical, petty, and soul-sapping. Wives resent their would-be prophet husbands less for believing themselves ‘chosen’ than for shirking all family responsibilities; mothers fret about the size of their toddler’s penises and ruminate, ‘all children are experiments—messy, uncontrolled, long-term experiments.’ Shapeshifting is a wry, fearless, extremely funny, flat-out dazzling book.” 

- Kim Magowan, author of Undoing: Stories

Michelle Ross is the author of the story collections There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You (Moon City Press 2017), winner of the 2016 Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Short Stories, and Shapeshifting, which was selected by judge Danielle Evans as the winner of the Stillhouse Press Short Story Award and is forthcoming in 2021.

Her fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, The Common, Epiphany, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, TriQuarterly, and other venues. Her fiction has been selected for Best Microfictions 2020 and the Wigleaf Top 50 2019, as well as won prizes from Gulf Coast and other journals.

She is fiction editor of Atticus Review and was a consulting editor for the 2018 Best Small Fictions anthology.

A native of Texas, she received her B.A. from Emory University and her M.F.A and M.A. from Indiana University. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and son. She works as a science writer.

Find her online at:
www.michellenross.com
www.facebook.com/michelle.n.ross.3

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