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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 by critics to the writings of John Steinbeck and both books have been optioned for film. 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. Michel has published numerous stories and essays and her novels have been favorably reviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Charlotte Observer, Kirkus (starred review), Publishers Weekly (starred review) and many others. A graduate of Clemson University and Converse College, she is an alumna of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Michel is a past board chair of the Hub City Writers Project and has served on Spartanburg Regional Foundation’s Cancer Board and the Clemson University Humanities Advancement Board. She currently serves on the Board of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands Council, the President’s Advisory Council for Wofford College, and the Board of Trustees of Spartanburg Day School where she chairs the Governance Committee and co-chairs the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. She is a Ucross Fellow, A Spartanburg Regional Fellow, a Liberty Fellow, and a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network and has been awarded several residencies.
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