Books Native Tongue - Stranger, Disenchanted and Disgruntled, Irony and Irreverence, Jesus - Joseph and Job, The Lost Journal of My Secon | ||
Michelle Hartman is an American author and poet. Born in Fort Worth in 1956, she attended Texas Wesleyan College (now University) in the early 1970s. Her major was Political Science until she dropped out of school. She finished her bachelor's degree in 2007, with a major in Political Science Pre-Law, and worked as a paralegal. She began writing poetry of political and social satire using fairy tales as a vehicle. Her first book, Disenchanted and Disgruntled, was published by Lamar University Literary Press in 2013.
Her work has been featured in The Galway Review and The Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas published by Tarleton State University.
Hartman is also the editor of the international journal Red River Review. She has read at Southwest literary festivals such as Scissortail Literary Festival in Oklahoma and Georgetown Poetry Festival in Texas.