Living with disability in Adelaide/Kaurna Country, Michèle Saint-Yves primarily writes for stage and screen as well as poetry with several short stories and poems published in journals and anthologies. She has also directed and produced plays and short films. Her first poetry book Lament was published with Friendly Street Poets Inc in October 2021 after winning their Single Poets Competition in that same year. Her novella The Permission Slip was shortlisted for the UK’s MsLexia Novella Fiction Prize in 2019.
Outside of writing, Michèle loves to go swimming in wild water places and thunderstorms and to dance in the rain when able. In 2020 she graduated as a medico-neuroscientist and won UniSA Cancer Research Institute’s Cancer Biology Prize. That same year she was in the top three of Brain Injury SA’s Most Inspiring Individual Award. You can find out more about Michèle on her website www.michelesaintyves.com