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Michaela Carter

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Phoenix, Arizona

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Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Michaela Carter is an award-winning poet and writer. She studied theater at UCLA and holds an MFA in creative writing, and her poetry has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, won the Poetry Society of America Los Angeles New Poets Contest, and appeared in numerous journals. Recently she cofounded the Peregrine Book Company, an independent bookstore in Prescott, Arizona, where she works as a book buyer and storyteller. She lives in Prescott with her two inscrutable children and teaches creative writing at Yavapai College.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 1,107 ratings · 258 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Leonora in the Morning Light 3.80 avg rating — 962 ratings — published 2021 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Further Out Than You Thought 3.40 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Leader by Valencya Thompson, Michaela Carter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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From the bottom of an icy ocean, filled with lethargy and longing, I look up at the world where my old self went about her business so blithely. The woman I see from beneath all this water is a shadowy thing, a faceless block of colors, blue-white, blue-gr

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“Outside the Bar Del Prado, night was coming on like a hopeless, drunken come-on, tequila on its breath, red neon signs and, outside the shops, strings of colored Christmas lights hung from the eaves like the sad, close-lipped smiles of boys who would lure you in with their loneliness, that melancholia you'd try and try to fix.”
― Michaela Carter, Further Out Than You Thought

tags: 1992, fiction, mexico

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“I was so swept up in our beautiful experiment in freedom, I couldn’t see his pain.”
― Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

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“It was either opportunity or integrity. Women, it seemed, were more often pressed to choose between them.”
― Michaela Carter, Leonora in the Morning Light

tags: feminism, women

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