Michelle Collins Anderson

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In this interview, I chat with Michelle Collins Anderson about The Flower Sisters, inspired by an actual event from 1928, her daily family newsletter, how she decided to structure the story, the highlights of writing the book, the title and cover, and much more.

Michelle's recommended reads are:

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith
Murder Bot by Martha Wells

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Author

Michelle Collins Anderson grew up on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri.

Her fiction has appeared in Nimrod International Journal #37 Awards Edition, Literal Latté, Midwestern Gothic, bosque, The Lascaux Review, Pooled Ink, Literary Mama and Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies, and is forthcoming in Storied Hills: An Anthology of Contemporary Ozark Fiction. Michelle has been an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri and Stephens College, taught creative writing at her local elementary school, and served on the board of The Missouri Review. She and her husband have three adult children and live in St. Louis with two cats and a rambunctious border collie. The Flower Sisters is her first novel and is forthcoming from Kensington on April 23, 2024.