Michelle Reale

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

Reale is a full professor 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


 * Season of Subtraction (Bordighera Press, 2019)
 * All These Things Were Real: Poems of Delirium Tremens (West Philly Press, 2017)
 * Birds of Sicily (Aldrich Press, 2016)
 * The Legacy of the Sidelong Glance: Elegies (Aldrich Press, 2014)
 * 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 (ALA Editions, 2012)
 * Becoming an Embedded Librarian (ALA Editions, 2015)