Michelle Adel­man has an MFA in Writ­ing from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, and BS and MS degrees in Jour­nal­ism from North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty. Her work has appeared in Bus­tle, Fic­tion Writ­ers Review, Extract(s), and else­where. She lives in San Diego.