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Michelle Ray is a writer and educator with over 25 years of teaching experience in Ecuador, Bahrain, Dubai, and the United States. She is currently pursuing her MFA in creative nonfiction at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where she received an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. She also serves as a reader for Guernica and The Good Life Review. Her work has appeared in Beyond Words International Literary Magazine and Obindo Magazine.

Her years of living and teaching abroad form the heart of her debut memoir, a story rooted in the ongoing negotiation of identity, belonging, and transformation that comes with building a life far from home.

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Miguel Ruiz
“What you will see is love coming out of the trees, love coming out of the sky, love coming out of the light. You will perceive love from everything around you. This is the state of bliss.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“Love asks us to enjoy our life
For nothing good can come of death.
Who is alive? I ask.
Those who are born of love.

Seek us in love itself,
Seek love in us ourselves.
Sometimes I venerate love,
Sometimes it venerates me.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

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