Ruined Beauty
Michelle Bitting
Michelle Bitting was recently named a City of L.A. Individual Master Artist Grantee and is the author of seven poetry collections, including Nightmares & Miracles, winner of the Wilder Prize and named one of Kirkus Reviews 2022 Best of Indie. Her chapbook Dummy Ventriloquist was published in 2024 (C & R Press). Her forthcoming collection Ruined Beauty will be published by Walton Well Press in Spring, 2026. Bitting is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature at Loyola Marymount University.
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