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Michelle Sterling

Assistant Professor
Affiliated Departments
Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Michelle M. Sterling is an author of speculative fiction. At Berklee, she teaches creative writing and utopian, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic literature. Her award-winning debut novel, Camp Zero, is a New York Times and international bestseller, and has been published in 10 languages.

Career Highlights
  • Debut novel, Camp Zero, is a New York Times and international bestseller
  • Camp Zero was a The Today Show's Read with Jenna book club pick
  • Essays and short stories have appeared in The Baffler, Bellevue Literary Review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Joyland
  • Her work has been translated into 10 languages
Awards
  • The Libby Book Awards Winner
  • The Canada Council for the Arts Award
  • The Berklee Faculty Development Grant
  • 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
  • Writer in Residence, Vermont Studio Center
Education
  • Boston University
    Massachusetts
    Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
    Creative Writing