Michelle DeLiso’s work has appeared in magazines and literary journals including City Works Literary Journal, Barely South Review, Press Pause Press, Grande Dame Literary Journal, Hippocampus Magazine, Clackamas Literary Review, Drunk Monkeys, and Weight Watchers Magazine. She is the author of the gift book Godparents: A Celebration of Those Special People in Our Lives (McGraw-Hill, 2002).

She holds a master’s degree in library service from Rutgers University and worked as a reference librarian before transitioning to magazine publishing, where she was a research editor for publications including Latina Magazine and O, The Oprah Magazine. She copyedits, proofreads, and reviews creative nonfiction manuscripts for the literary magazine Months To Years. She lives and writes in North Carolina, where she is at work on a memoir.