Michelle Polizzi is an essayist, journalist, and travel writer whose work has appeared in HuffPost, Slate, Reader’s Digest, Parade, Men’s Journal, Travel + Leisure, Explore, Barn Raiser, The Quality Edit, and The Economic Hardship Reporting Project, among other publications. Her work explores class, society, healing, and the intersections between. Her unpublished memoir, MODEL HOME, offers an unseen portrait of the housing crisis in Appalachia. She holds a BA in writing and rhetoric from Syracuse University and an MA in creative writing from Wilkes University. She is represented by Victoria Skurnick at Levine Greenberg Rostan literary agency.