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Michelle Collins Anderson

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September 28

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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 ...more

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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.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

tags: heat, spring, summer, weather

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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,”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Flower Sisters

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“Quart after quart of sun-ripened peaches, skinned and smooth as a baby’s behind, floating in clear syrup— there must have been ten dozen! Plus pint-sized mason jars filled with jewel-tone jellies and jams: blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, peach, apricot, cherry, gooseberry, persimmon and mulberry.”
― Michelle Collins Anderson, The Moonshine Women

tags: berries, fruit-preserves, inventory, jams, mason-jars, peaches

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September BoTM Nominations ~ Historical Fiction

Buckeye

by Patrick Ryan

10 votes, 47.6%

The Secret Keepers of Old Depot Grocery

by Amanda Cox

3 votes, 14.3%

The First Witch of Boston

by Andrea Catalano

3 votes, 14.3%

The Boxcar Librarian

by Brianna Labuskes

2 votes, 9.5%

The Hounding

by Xenobe Purvis

2 votes, 9.5%

Isola

by Allegra Goodman

1 vote, 4.8%

The Moonshine Women

by Michelle Collins Anderson

0 votes, 0.0%

Good Dirt

by Charmaine Wilkerson

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What Kind of Paradise

by Janelle Brown

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Junie

by Erin Crosby Eckstine

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