Michelle Messina Reale is an Italian-American Poet and a Professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania.  Her creative work uses narrative inheritance to explicate the Italian-American experience and to better understand her family of origin.  She writes across genres, but is dedicated to poetry, specifically the prose poem , a style which allows her to create worlds both miniature and intimate.   She is the Founding and Managing Editor of the online journal,  Ovunque Siamo: New Italian American Writing.