Michelle Collins Anderson

Michelle Collins Anderson is a U.S. Today best-selling author who grew up on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks — a place and a way of life that have shaped her writing. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism with an MFA from Warren Wilson College, she previously worked in advertising and public relations, taught elementary school creative writing, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri and Stephens College. Her debut novel, The Flower Sisters, received the Missouri Library Association’s 2025 Literary Award and her short fiction has appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Midwestern Gothic, Literary Mama and Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A mother of three, she lives with her husband in St. Louis, Missouri.