Michelle Willms' memoir, Northern Girls (Baraka Books), is a collection of true stories about the fractured legacy of growing up in rural northern Ontario. Her creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry have appeared in literary journals, as well as in anthologies. She is a nominee for the 2026 Pushcart Prize, as well as the Best of the Net anthology, and was the 2021/2022 recipient of the Norman L. Rothstein Memorial Scholarship, awarded by the Smith Family Foundation on the recommendation of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, where she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. Michelle and her family live in Southern Ontario as settlers on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples.