Michelle Detorie is the author of numerous chapbooks including Fur Birds (Insert Press), How Hate Got Hand (eohippus labs), and Bellum Letters (Dusie). Her first full-length collection, After-Cave, was published by Ahsahta Press in September, 2014. Her current project, The Sin in Wilderness, is a book-length erasure poem about love, animals, and affective geography. In 2007, Michelle was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts literature fellowship, and in 2010 she won a direct-to-artist grant from the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative for her public art project, The Poetry Booth. She lives in Santa Barbara, CA, where she writes, teaches, and edits Hex Presse . She is also the poetry editor at Entropy (entropymag.org).