“Thank You, John is a compelling, darkly funny memoir about class, power and sex work, and how all of these subjects intertwine.”
“A stunning debut, full of heart, and desperately funny.”
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 creative work explores the complexities of sex work, class, power and Michelle’s intersectional identity as a queer, mixed-ethnicity (white / Chicana) woman.
Her WIP memoir,Thank You, John 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, through a tumultuous sugar daddy arrangement that she believes her destiny. Excerpts have appeared in 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.
Michelle teaches creative writing and composition courses at Colorado State University Boulder and Arizona State University.
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