A writer of poetry and poetic prose, Michele Lee Sefton is a veteran English teacher who left the classroom in 2019 to develop her writing voice. She has since been published in various anthologies and platforms, including Piper Poetry Month Anthology through the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.

Collaborating with her artist daughter during the pandemic, she published a series of illustrated poetry chapbooks, Being a Woman: Overcoming, Being a Woman: Becoming, and Being a Woman: Forthcoming. In 2020, she published a collection of poems to celebrate her one-year blog anniversary, My Inspired Life: A Poetic Journey. Her titles, Her Coastal Cottage: Where Truth & Love Rise and Honeysuckle Heat, offer readers the author’s vivid poetic prose in novella length.

Jade’s Broken Bridge (2025) is her debut novel. She continues to publish creative projects under her imprint, Tumbleweed Spirit Press. Michele Lee enjoys sharing and connecting on her writing and photography blog, dancing with other expressive women, and working with Sandra Marinella, the author of The Story You Need to Tell, co-facilitating narrative therapy workshops. Michele Lee’s undergrad is in English with a secondary endorsement, and she holds a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from Northern Arizona University, and a Graduate Certificate in Composition Studies from Indiana University.