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Michelle Y. Souliere

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Michelle Souliere is an author and artist who lives in Portland, Maine, where she graduated from the Maine College of Art. She owns the Green Hand Bookshop, where you can find her most of the time. Her home is shared with her husband, Tristan Gallagher, and their two cats, Meep and Mr. Biscuits.

Her work (both written and drawn) is driven by curiosity, and inspired by Maine history, the Maine landscape, and how we respond to it.

Her work as editor of the Strange Maine Gazette and its companion blog gave rise to her first book which was published in 2010, Strange Maine: True Tales from the Pine Tree State. Since that time she has been working on Bigfoot in Maine whenever she can, traveling around the state and interviewing eyewitnesses for t ...more

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	Strange Maine: True Tales from the Pine Tree State 3.83 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2010 — 5 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
	Bigfoot in Maine by Michelle Y. Souliere (Goodreads Author), Loren Coleman (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 49 ratings — 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
	Snowbound with Zombies: Tales of the Supernatural Inspired by the Life and Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by David Goudsward (Editor), K.H. Vaughan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), W.H. Pugmire (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 2 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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Monsters of the Pine Tree State: Cryptids & Legends of Maine (Monsters of America)

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