Michelle Bitting has authored five poetry collections, the latest being Nightmares & Miracles (Two Sylvias Press, 2022), winner of the 2020 Wilder Prize. Her collection, Broken Kingdom (RiskPress, 2018) won the Fischer Poetry Prize and was named to Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2018. Her collection, Good Friday Kiss (C&R, 2008), won the DeNovo First Book Award and her Notes to the Beloved (C&R, 2017) won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award. Bitting is Poet Laureate of Pacific Palisades (CA). She is a lecturer in poetry and creative writing at Loyola Marymount University (L.A.) and in Film Studies at University of Arizona Global.