Michelle teaches English Studies and Creative Writing at Macquarie University. Michelle writes fiction and creative non-fiction, and is working on a history of Resettlement Camps in Algeria during the Algerian War for Independence from France (1954-62). She was an editor at Southerly until 2018 and is now Managing Editor at Mascara Literary Review, a bi-annual literary journal interested in the work of the contemporary migrant, Asian Australian and Aboriginal writers.