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)