Our Authors and Their Books

Michelle Herman

Michelle Herman is the author of the novels: Close-Up, Missing, Dog, and Devotion, and the collection of novellas, A New and Glorious Life. She is also the author of three essay collections: The Middle of Everything, Stories We Tell Ourselves, and Like A Song. Herman has been awarded an NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship, several Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowships, the Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant in Fiction, and the Hadasash/Harold U. Ribalow Award for Best Jewish Book of the year. She writes regularly for Slate's Care and Feeding column and is Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio State University, where she teaches in the MFA program she co-founded, and where she also founded and directs an interdisciplinary program in the arts. Find her at michelleherman.com.

To purchase her newest novel Close-Up, you may pre-order it from UGA Press. Pre-orders will open in December 2021.

Her earlier titles can be purchased via Amazon.