Michel Stone is a writer, speaker, educator, and community volunteer. Her critically acclaimed novels Border Child (April 2017, Doubleday/Anchor) and The Iguana Tree (Hub City Press, 2012) have been compared to the writings of John Steinbeck, and both books are in development as a limited television series. She is the winner of the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature, and the South Carolina Fiction Award. Her novel Border Child was featured in the New Yorker’s Briefly Noted. Stone has published numerous stories and essays and her novels have been favorably reviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle, Charleston Magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Charlotte Observer, The New York Journal of Books, Texas Observer, Kirkus (starred review), Publishers Weekly (starred review), Booklist, and many others. She's a graduate of Clemson University with a Master's Degree from Converse College, and she is an alumna of the Sewanee Writers Conference. She currently serves on the boards of Converse University and Spartanburg Day School. She's a past board chair of the Hub City Writers Project and has served on The Spartanburg Regional Foundation Board, Clemson University's Humanities Advancement Board, the Board of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina - Mountains to Midlands Council, and the President’s Advisory Council for Wofford College. She has received residencies from The Ucross Foundation, the Wildacres Residency Program, and the Rowland Writers Retreat. Michel is a Ucross Fellow, Spartanburg Regional Fellow, Liberty Fellow, and a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She and her husband live in Spartanburg, SC. Her first name is pronounced like Michelle (people always ask!)
Articles:
Fiction Reminds Us That We’re All In This Together: Literary Hub
Michel Stone on the hard work of finding a common humanity
Interviews:
Click here to hear Michel Stone Commencement Address at Converse College
Upstate international selected The Iguana Tree for its Community Read 2015. Watch the interview conducted by Deryle Hope, Ed. D., Director, Center for International Studies, USC Upstate, conducted on the campus of Clemson University.
Watch the interview conducted by Rita Van Zandt at the Blue Ridge Book Festival, 2013.