Michele Poulos is an award-winning screenwriter, award-winning poet, and filmmaker. She earned a BFA in film from New York University, an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from Arizona State University. While at NYU, she worked as an intern for Albert Maysles at his production company Maysles Films. Her original screenplay,
Mule Bone Blues, won the 2010 Virginia Screenwriting Competition and placed in the second round of the 2015 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Competition and the second round of the 2010 Austin Screenplay Competition. Iris Press published her first full-length poetry collection, Black Laurel, in March 2016. Her poetry chapbook, A Disturbance in the Air, won the 2012 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition. Her poems and fiction, as well as reviews and essays, have been published in Best New Poets 2012, The Southern Review, Smartish Pace, Crab Orchard Review, Copper Nickel, Sycamore Review, Stone Canoe, Blackbird, and many other journals and anthologies. She recently completed co-writing a romantic comedy with a stand- up comic.