About: Michelle Arch
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- Michelle is a graduate student at Chapman University who is currently pursuing the dual MA in English and MFA in Creative Writing degree. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and English and an MBA from California State University. Her current projects include a portfolio of essays, short stories, and poems and a fiction novel. She is a member of the Christian Writers Guild, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, American Christian Fiction Writers, the Modern Language Association, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society. Michelle has presented her work at the 2010 and 2011 Sigma Tau Delta International Conventions in St. Louis and Pittsburgh, the Sigma Tau Delta 2011 Regional Conference in Orange, California, and the 2012 John Fowles Literary Forum at Chapman University. An excerpt from her fiction novel, Time of Death, won First Prize in the Fiction Writing Contest sponsored by The Editorial Department, Second Prize in the WestBow Press Writing Contest, and Third Prize in the Beverly Bush Smith Aspiring Writer Award competition at the 2012 Orange County Christian Writers Conference in Newport Beach, May 18-20. Michelle can be contacted directly at michelle_arch@hotmail.com.