Spark Artist

Michelle Ruiz Keil is a playwright and author. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, All Of Us With Wings, called “…a transcendent journey” by The New York Times Book Review, was a Book of The Month Club selection. Her sophomore novel, Summer In The City of Roses, was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le. Guin Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has been most recently published by the Buckmxn Journal and the anthology Dispatchesfrom Anarres.

She is a 2021 Tin House Scholar and the recipient of residencies from Hedgebrook, The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Bloedel Reserve. She serves on the Le Guin Prize Reading Committee, the advisory board of the Bay Area Book Festival, was recently an instructor at the Tin House YA Workshop. Born and raised bookish in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michelle has lived with her family in Portland, Oregon for many years in an overgrown cottage where the forest meets the city.