Michelle Orange was born and raised in London, Ontario. A graduate of the University of Toronto, in 2003 she moved to New York City to join the graduate film studies program at New York University. Michelle's essays, features, fiction, and criticism have appeared in McSweeney's, The Nation, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the New York Times, the Village Voice, Movieline and other publications. She is the author of The Sicily Papers, published in 2006, and the editor of From the Notebook: The Unwrit­ten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a collection published in issue 22 of McSweeney's.She is currently a contributing editor at The Rumpus and a regular contributor to Capital New York. This Is Running For Your Life, an essay collection, will be published by FSG in February, 2013.For more info please check out www.michelleorange.com