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Michelle Sterling

Assistant Professor
Affiliated Departments
Liberal Arts and Sciences
msterling@berklee.edu
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
  • Boston University
    Massachusetts
    Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A)
    Creative Writing