Michelle Elvy is an editor, manuscript assessor, writer and teacher of creative writing – and erstwhile historian and passionate blue-water sailor. Her anthology work includes A Kind of Shelter: Whakaruru-taha (MUP 2023), Breach of All Size: Small stories on Ulysses, love and Venice (The Cuba Press 2022) and Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand (OUP 2020). Her books include the novel, the everrumble (2019), and the hybrid story collection, the other side of better (2021). 

She is founder of National Flash Fiction Day and Flash Frontier, she has been reviews editor at of Landfall and takahē, and since October 2022 she serves on the board of AT THE BAY | I TE KOKORU.