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Michelle Sterling
Position
Assistant Professor
Affiliated Departments
Telephone
617-747-6562
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Michelle M. Sterling is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. At Berklee, she teaches creative writing and literature with a focus on utopian, dystopian and post-apocalyptic narratives, and AAPI literature. She is the faculty advisor for the Asian Americans in Music and Entertainment Club (AAIME). Her debut novel, Camp Zero, is forthcoming with Atria/Simon & Schuster (US), Knopf (Canada), and John Murray (UK) in 2023, and will be translated into seven languages.
Career Highlights
- Debut novel, Camp Zero, will be published in 2023
- Publications include work in The Baffler, VICE, Bellevue Literary Review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Joyland
- Writing has been translated into 10 languages
Awards
- Faculty Development Grant, Berklee College of Music
- Leighton Artists’ Colony Fellowship, Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
- Literature Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
- Literature Fellowship, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
- Fiction Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
- Writing Resident, Norman Mailer Colony, Provincetown, MA
- Writer in Residence, Vermont Studio Center
Education
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School NameBoston UniversityState or ProvinceMassachusettsDegreeMaster of Fine Arts (MFA)Field of StudyCreative WritingDate Degree Received