Advance Praise
for DESPITE NARRATIVE:
“Opened it——and couldn’t stop.”
—Noam Chomsky
“A reckoning.”
—Edward Hirsch
“Michelle Hoppe wields language with a scalpel’s precision, cutting away at a reader’s preconceptions to reach the raw, beating heart of her experience. Sharp and urgent, these interlocking poems and essays connect to reveal what it means to live as a woman in misogynistic societies and as a person with a neurodivergent mind in a world that insists upon the neurotypical. In vivid, piercing detail, Hoppe shows how abuse alters the bones that carry one’s life and how she, as a survivor, fought to be true to herself and her lived experience despite the narratives the world writes about her. This is visceral, moving work that becomes a part of you, and that I will remember long after reading.”
—Emma Bolden
“An artistic genius.”
—Mo Salemy
“Power in both form and language.”
—Donna Kaz
Selected Poetry
TRP: The University Press of SHSU, The World We See: Women Poets on Neurodivergence, “On the Neurodivergent Grief of Smiling Too Much in Public”
PromptPress, “All the Love I Wish She Could Receive But That We Could Not Give”
Tilted House Press, “This Final Subtweet Is an Act of Love”
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, “Tulip Bulbs Dry on a Sunday Morning of a Utah Spring”
Selected Essays
Adelaide Literary Magazine, “Edward Hirsch on Love and Civilization”
&&& Journal, “Survivor Made——Love in the Time of Domestic Terrorism” (forthcoming)
&&& Journal, “Also Reality and the Weight of Conjunctions”
Gasher Journal, “A Perpetual Invitation to Dinner with My Lover”
The Massachusetts Review, “Also Reality”
Saw Palm, “Mormon Girls Camp”
Litro Magazine, “Imprinting Her Outline All Over Me”
Cleaver Magazine, “Fish Feel No Pain”
South 85 Journal, “I Can Make You Immortal”
The Bitch’n Kitsch, “A Progeny”
Residencies
Juniper Institute, Massachusetts USA, 2026
Tomales Bay Workshop, California USA, 2022
OMEGA Women in Power Conference, New York USA, 2019