Michèle Campbell writes essays, short stories, book reviews, and has been known to blog. She grew up in Southern California—in Orange County, the city of Orange, on Orange Street. Her parents drove an orange Toyota Corolla hatchback during her formative years. As a result, she often wonders if there is any way around that rhymes with orange rule—it is possible that this is what led her to begin writing. She has been a lover of words and self-important emotional pronouncements all her life, so her primary genre is creative non-fiction. She's also spending a lot of time at the Brave New Workshop, hoping that the improv crowd will take her under its wing and teach her the ways of the stage.