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Michelle Collins Anderson is the USA Today best selling author of THE FLOWER SISTERS, her debut novel which also won the Missouri Library Association Literary Award in 2025.

Michelle grew up on a farm in the Missouri Ozarks — a place and a way of life that has shaped her writing. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College and has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri.

Her short fiction has appeared in Nimrod International Journal #37 Awards Edition, Literal Latté, Midwestern Gothic, bosque, The Lascaux Review, Pooled Ink, Literary Mama and Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozark Studies and is forthcoming in Storied Hills: An Anthology of Contemporary Ozark Fiction.

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“Sometimes I think spring lasts about fifteen minutes around here and then we're all sitting on Hell's front porch.”
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“You can’t change where and who you’ve come from, only where you will go and who you will be. But that place and those people always call your name,”
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“I’ve read a lot about it, and the experts say that identical twins often know what the other is thinking or feeling or about to do without being told.”
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Polls

November BoTM Nominations ~ Family Drama ~1st Poll
Top 5 move onto final poll

Sandwich

by Catherine Newman

4 votes, 16.7%

The Piano Lesson

by August Wilson

4 votes, 16.7%

Long Bright River

by Liz Moore

4 votes, 16.7%

My Name Is Lucy Barton

by Elizabeth Strout

4 votes, 16.7%

The Flower Sisters

by Michelle Collins Anderson

3 votes, 12.5%

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

2 votes, 8.3%

Same As It Ever Was

by Claire Lombardo

1 vote, 4.2%

Such a Lovely Family

by Aggie Blum Thompson

1 vote, 4.2%

The Most Fun We Ever Had

by Claire Lombardo

1 vote, 4.2%

Did You Ever Have a Family

by Bill Clegg

0 votes, 0.0%

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