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Michelle Collins Anderson

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Michelle Collins Anderson is the USA Today best selling author of THE FLOWER SISTERS, her debut novel which also won the Missouri Library Association Literary Award in 2025.

Michelle grew up on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri.

Her short fiction has appeared in Nimrod International Journal #37 Awards Edition, Literal Latté, Midwestern Gothic, bosque, The Lascaux Review, Pooled Ink, Literary Mama and Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies and is forthcoming in Storied Hills: An Anthology of Contemporary Ozark Fiction.

Michelle has been an adjunct professor at the University of M
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Michelle Collins Anderson Great question, Anita! Rose sort of figures it out when she finds the note in Jimmy's pocket — and her intention is to talk to Roger about it. But the…moreGreat question, Anita! Rose sort of figures it out when she finds the note in Jimmy's pocket — and her intention is to talk to Roger about it. But then she falls and is out of commission, and meanwhile Jimmy is lauded and buried. I think in her heart she felt she didn't want to share his secret because she felt he had suffered enough — punishing himself for whatever his role was in the explosion (she doesn't know for sure, just surmises). He tried his whole life to make up for it as police chief and caretaker of the community and she felt maybe he had paid the price for that one moment of bad decision making? Anyway, thanks for reading... it means a lot! Ihope you will check out my new book THE MOONSHINE WOMEN, coming March 31, 2026!(less)
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“Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch.”
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“You can’t change where and who you’ve come from, only where you will go and who you will be. But that place and those people always call your name,”
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“Because home is a feeling, and the people and place that inspire that feeling.”
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