Michelle Gurule
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Mail code: 2780Campus: Poly
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Michelle Gurule (she/her) is a writer and educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Michelle earned her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Mexico in 2021.
Her memoir,Thank You, John, forthcoming Fall 2025 with Unnamed Press, named as one of Debutiful's most highly anticipated book of the year, is a comedy-tragedy, which follows 24-year-old, Michelle, a wanna-be writer, exasperated by poverty, bad teeth, and the poor choices of her family, towards the tumultuous pathway of becoming an artist.
Her work has appeared in Slate, HuffPost Personals, Electric Lit, The Offing, Joyland, StoryQuarterly, Drunk Monkeys, Homology, and Alien. In 2021, the excerpt, “Exit Route,” won StoryQuarterly’s Nonfiction Prize, judged by T Kira Maealani Madden and was later listed in Best American Essays Notables in 2022.
M.F.A. Creative Writing, May 2021
The University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM
BA Women’s Studies, May 2017
Minor: English
Metropolitan State University of Denver - Denver, CO
Creative Nonfiction
Memoir
Creative Writing
Researched Memoir
Thank You, John. Unnamed Press. (September 23, 2025).
“MAGA Pilled.” Slate (2025).
“I Recovered from an Eating Disorder. Then My Mom Started Ozempic.” Memoirland, Substack (2025).
“I Needed $42k in Dental Work. I Thought I’d Take The Secret of How I Paid For It To My Grave.” HuffPost Personals (2025).
“My Uncle Doesn’t Need To Die In Prison To Learn His Lesson.” Electric Literature (2025).
“Plans for Future Disasters.” The Offing (2024).
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Fall
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 102 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Fall
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
| ENG 101 | First-Year Composition |
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