Michele Christle is a writer whose work focuses on culture, ecology, and place. After serving in the Peace Corps in Cameroon as an agroforestry volunteer, Michele earned an MFA in Creative Writing from UMass Amherst. Her writing has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Eater, Insider, Down East, and Cultural Survival Quarterly. Michele has 20 years’ experience working in communications, oral history, education, and journalism. In recent years, she’s worked with Maine Sea Grant, Maine Audubon, Out in the Open, and as a producer/facilitator for StoryCorps’ One Small Step program through WERU Community Radio. Currently, Michele works with Torchlight Media and Atlantic Black Box’s Walk for Historical and Ecological Recovery and serves on the the Maine Community Foundation’s Waldo County Committee. The recipient of a Bodwell Fellowship, a LEF/CIFF Fellowship, and residencies at Hewnoaks and Shannaghe, Michele is working on a longform writing project and documentary (with filmmaker Eli Kao) about eels.

Christle is pronounced “crystal.”