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My Kindle Singles memoir, Walk Away, was published July 5, 2016 under my previous name, Michele Leavitt. Here's the editor's blurb:

"Walk Away is the unflinching and inspiring story of how author Michele Leavitt lived through the violence of her adolescence, how that violence haunted her through her escape to college and law school, and how she ultimately came to rise out of it to a place of possibility. It begins with lessons in self-defense from convicted killers, as well as a piece of advice: Do whatever it takes to be the one who walks away. Hard-edged but motivating, this is a story about overcoming the bleakest of obstacles."

My book-length poetry collection, Back East, won the inaugural Michael Macklin First Book Prize and was publishe ...more

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	Walk Away: a memoir 3.76 avg rating — 82 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Virus Conversations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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SOFAR is “a thriving catalog of poems spreading good news: Attentiveness to each other and to the “more than human” world offers relief from fascist insistence on bland uniformity.”

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