Michele Lee Sefton

A writer of poetry and poetic prose, Michele Lee Sefton is a veteran English teacher who left the classroom in the fall of 2019 to develop her writing voice. She has since been published in various anthologies and platforms, including Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University in its Piper Poetry Month Anthology. Collaborating with her artist daughter during the pandemic, she published a series of illustrated poetry chapbooks, Being a Woman: Overcoming, Being a Woman: Becoming, and Being a Woman: Forthcoming. In 2020, she published a collection of poems to celebrate her one-year blog anniversary, My Inspired Life: A Poetic Journey. Her titles, Her Coastal Cottage: Where Truth & Love Rise and Honeysuckle Heat, offer readers the author’s vivid poetic prose in novella length.

Jade’s Broken Bridge (2025) is her debut novel and winner of the New Fiction category in the 20th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards and a New Adult finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Sefton continues to publish creative projects under her imprint, Tumbleweed Spirit Press. She enjoys sharing and connecting on her writing and photography blog, Tumbleweed Spirit, dancing with other expressive women, and working with Sandra Marinella, the author of The Story You Need to Tell, co-facilitating narrative therapy workshops. To learn more about the author and her works, visit msefton dot com.