“Thank You, John is a compelling, darkly funny memoir about class, power and sex work, and how all of these subjects intertwine.”
“Disarmingly funny and authentically charming, Michelle Gurule’s debut memoir finds unexpected tenderness in sex work and approaches the poverty of her upbringing with unflinching honesty, a family at once deeply flawed and unconditionally loving. Gurule reaches for something so few contemporary writers do: a genuine understanding, generous compassion, and the ability to see, with humor and tenderness, the imperfect love that binds us.”
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, white / Chicana woman.
Her memoir,Thank You, John, forthcoming Fall 2025 with Unnamed Press, 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. Pre-order here!
Her work has appeared in 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.
Michelle teaches at Arizona State University.
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