Michelle Herman (born March 9, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American writer and a Professor of English at The Ohio State University. Her most widely known work is the novel Dog, which WorldCat shows in 545 libraries^[1] and has been translated into Italian. She has also written the novel Missing, which was awarded the Harold Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction. She is married to Glen Holland, a still life painter. They have a daughter.^[2]

Biography

Herman received a B.S. from Brooklyn College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, after which she was a James Michener Fellow. She has taught since 1988 at the Ohio State University, where she directs both the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and an interdisciplinary graduate program in the arts.

She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in addition to her James Michener Fellowship.^[3]

In addition to her novels, she has published a collection of short fiction, A New and Glorious Life.^[4] "Auslander" which appears in the collection was also included in American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories by Gerald Shapiro^[5]

She has published two essay collections, the autobiographical The Middle of Everything, as well as the 2013 volume of personal essays, Stories We Tell Ourselves. ^[6][7] Her essay Dream Life, also appeared separately as a Kindle single.

She serves as an Advisory Editor for The Journal' with Kathy Fagan

Roberta Maierhofer viewed Herman's novel Missing as a literary gerontology example of the process of redefining one's self in advancing age.^[8]