Michelle’s first attempt at novel writing came at the age of eight and was scrawled into a tiny, green spiral notebook. The title: I Hate Tuna (imagine the horrifying true story of the book Alive, but instead of the plane-crash surviving protagonist resorting to cannibalism, she’s forced to subsist on her most-hated food, canned tuna). Ah well.

Born and raised in Princeton, NJ, her mother is Swedish and her father is first generation American with Albanian parents. Her heart and soul are deeply rooted in the family’s little house on an island in the Baltic Sea. She’s a dual-citizen of Sweden and the US.