Michelle Reale

Michelle (Messina) Reale^[1] (January 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer.

Reale is an Associate Professor^[2] 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.

Books

Poetry

• Birds of Sicily^[3] (Aldrich Press, 2016)
• The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies (Aldrich Press, 2015)
• Natural Habitat (Burning River, 2011)
• Like Lungfish Getting Through the Dry Season (Thunderclap Press, 2012)
• If All They Had Were Their Bodies (Burning River, 2013)
• This is Not a Situation in Which You Should Remain Calm (Cervena Barva Press, 2014)

Academic

• Mentoring and Managing Students in the Academic Library^[4] (ALA Editions, 2012)
• Becoming an Embedded Librarian ^[5](ALA Editions, 2015)

References

1. "Michelle Reale - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
2. "Creative Writing Student and Alumni Spotlight | Arcadia University". www.arcadia.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
3. "Book Review: "Birds of Sicily", Poems by Michelle Reale - Times of Sicily". 2016-06-12. Retrieved 2016-07-26.
4. RCHRISTOPHER (2013-08-01). "Mentoring and managing students in the academic library". Retrieved 2016-07-26.
5. "Becoming an Embedded Librarian: Making Connections in the Classroom—print/e-book Bundle - Books / Professional Development - Books for Academic Librarians - Bundles & Bulk Items - New Products - ALA Store". www.alastore.ala.org. Retrieved 2016-07-26.

External links

• http://www.sempresiclia.wordpress.com Blog
• http://www.michellmessinareale.com Official website