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ABOUT MICHELLE MALONZO
Michelle is a reader, writer, bookseller, culture worker and care/worker living in the deep Southwest. Her work lies at the intersection of storytelling, community and social change. Michelle has worked across the literary arts sector, supporting storytellers from historically under-resourced communities and building pathways for readers across identities to discover and engage with often overlooked stories.
Currently Michelle works in small press publishing and continues to provide consulting services for authors, publishers, and arts organizations. Michelle's book experience is rooted in sales and marketing, author tours and events, operations, supply chain, inventory and project management. She worked in traditional book publishing for nearly 10 years and in bookselling for 5 years. Most recently, Michelle has been working in arts nonprofits, collaborating with arts and culture organizations and institutions to create free and accessible literary programming. This work includes: financial analysis and forecasting; operations and project management; systems building and implementation for information transparency and accessibility; strategic planning; development of special projects; and partnership cultivation.
Michelle was a judge for the 2022 inaugural Republic of Consciousness U.S. Prize, a 2022 National Book Award Judge for Fiction, a recipient of the 2021 Duende-Word BIPOC Bookseller Award for Leadership, a 2020 Bookselling Without Borders Fellow, and a 2019 Kirkus Judge for Fiction.
To read Michelle's work, you can subscribe to her newsletter, The Litter Box which focuses on books, care/work and pop culture through personal essays and critiques.