About Michele Feeney

Michele M. Feeney is an award-winning writer, lawyer, teacher, wife, and mother of five. She divides her time between Arizona and Michigan, where her family still owns part of a Christmas tree farm homesteaded by her ancestors in 1850. After spending twenty years raising children, working, and writing whenever she could, Michele earned her MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Bennington College in 2022.

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Her creative work is rooted in the untold histories of rural families, women’s resilience, and the everyday courage required to endure hardship. Her debut novel, Like Family (2024), was inspired by a story passed down from her grandmother and imagines how one small Michigan community weathered the influenza epidemic of 1918. Michele has attended the Bear River Writing Conference and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences and has served as Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine since 2017.

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With deep personal connections to Michigan’s landscape and history, Michele brings a compassionate, historically rich lens to her fiction. Like Home, the second novel in the Like Family Series, follows the Crowley-Reid family into the Great Depression, exploring motherhood, illness, mental health, identity, and the struggle to keep a home and a sense of belonging alive.

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She is currently at work on additional fiction, short stories, and a memoir about her friendship with a young man incarcerated in the Arizona Department of Corrections.