“Gurule blends candid self-examination with sharp critiques of class and power.”
Michelle Gurule (she/her) is a writer and educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Michelle earned her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Mexico in 2021. Her creative work explores the complexities of sex work, class, power and Michelle’s intersectional identity as a queer, white / Chicana woman.
Her memoir,Thank You, John, forthcoming Fall 2025 with Unnamed Press, is a comedy-tragedy, which follows 24-year-old, Michelle, a wanna-be writer, exasperated by poverty, bad teeth, and the poor choices of her family, through a tumultuous sugar daddy arrangement that she believes her destiny.
Her work has appeared in Slate, HuffPost Personals, Electric Lit, The Offing, Joyland, StoryQuarterly, Drunk Monkeys, Homology, and Alien. In 2021, the excerpt, “Exit Route,” won StoryQuarterly’s Nonfiction Prize, judged by T Kira Maealani Madden and was later listed in Best American Essays Notables in 2022.
Rep’d by Hannah Strouth, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates.
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