Michel Stone is a writer, speaker, educator, and community volunteer. Her critically acclaimed novels Border Child (April 2017, Doubleday/Anchor) and The Iguana Tree (Hub City Press, 2012) have been compared to the writings of John Steinbeck, and both books have been optioned for film. She is the winner of the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature, and the South Carolina Fiction Award. Stone has published numerous stories and essays and her novels have been favorably reviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Charleston Magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Charlotte Observer, The New York Journal of Books, Texas Observer, Charleston Magazine, Kirkus (starred review), Publishers Weekly (starred review), Booklist, and many others. She's a graduate of Clemson University with a Master's Degree from Converse College, and she is an alumna of the Sewanee Writers Conference. She's the immediate past board chair of the Hub City Writers Project and has served on The Spartanburg Regional Foundation Board and Clemson University's Humanities Advancement Board. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Spartanburg Day School, the Board of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina - Mountains to Midlands Council, and on the President’s Advisory Council for Wofford College. She has received residencies from The Ucross Foundation, the Wildacres Residency Program, and the Rowland Writers Retreat. Michel is a Ucross Fellow, Spartanburg Regional Fellow, Liberty Fellow, and a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She lives in Spartanburg, SC where she’s at work on her third novel. Her first name is pronounced like Michelle (people always ask!)
Articles:
Fiction Reminds Us That We’re All In This Together: Literary Hub
Michel Stone on the hard work of finding a common humanity
Interviews:
Click here to hear Michel Stone Commencement Address at Converse College
Upstate international selected The Iguana Tree for its Community Read 2015. Watch the interview conducted by Deryle Hope, Ed. D., Director, Center for International Studies, USC Upstate, conducted on the campus of Clemson University.
Watch the interview conducted by Rita Van Zandt at the Blue Ridge Book Festival, 2013.