Michelle Reale is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among her master’s degrees in English and Library and Information Science, she has an MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

She will be reading from her collection of writings “Birds of Sicily” in English and Italian.