Michelle DoegeMichelle Doege is a writer of poems and stories, an educator, and a nurturer of any creative community she calls home. She holds an MFA in creative writing in poetry and mixed genre from Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her poems-both print nd video-have appeared in Why We Write: Poets of Vernon, Smoke & Ash, Possessions: The Eldon House Poems, Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, Farm Folk City Folk; her story "End of a Rainbow" appears in Wherever I Find Myself: Stories of Canadian Immigrant Women (Caitlin Press, 2017). Her recent writing has been shortlisted for the Malahat Review's Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Award (2021) and earned semi-finalist in the Tulip Tree Publishing Contest (2019). Doege also finds great joy in layering poems with visual art, in broadsides or video collaborations. She currently writes and offers writing workshops in the Okanagan, British Columbia, her home, the green and freshest tendrils of her roots. To learn more about Doege's writing, creative activities, and workshops, please visit: www.michelledoegepoet.com. Read More Read Less