Michelle Richmond is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

[8] She founded Fiction Attic Press[9] and San Francisco Journal of Books and is also a publisher.

[10] Richmond's first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2001),[11] was published by the University of Massachusetts Press.

Her third book, The Year of Fog (2007), originally called Ocean Beach,[5] was published by Delacorte Press[12] and was a New York Times best seller.

[15] Her 2017 novel The Marriage Pact was a selection of the UK's Richard and Judy Book Club and was published in 30 languages[16] Her 2014 story collection Hum received the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.