Michelle Reale

Michelle (Messina) Reale (January 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer.

Reale is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among master's degrees in English and Library and Information Science, she has an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.