Michele Morano is the author of the essay collections Like Love (longlisted for the 2021 PEN Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay) and Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain. Her essays have appeared in many anthologies and literary journals, including Best American Essays, Ninth Letter, Brevity, and The Normal School. She has received honors and awards for her writing from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the New York Public Library, among others. She is Professor and Chair of the English Department at DePaul University in Chicago.

Website: www.michelemorano.com

Twitter Username: @MicheleMorano

Publications

• Grammar Lessons: Translating a LIfe in Spain , University of Iowa Press (March 2007)
• Like Love , Mad Creek Books (Ohio State University Press) (September 2020)

Employment

• Professor of English at DePaul University (September 2003 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction Writing from University of Iowa (May 2001)
• Doctoral Degree in English from University of Iowa (May 2001)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry