Michelle Renee Hoppe

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Michelle Renee Hoppe is the founder and Creative Director of Capable Magazine, a literary magazine for stories of disability and illness. Capable has been featured by Zingara Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review.

She manages a team of editors and oversees website design, all submission selections, readings, workshops and accommodations, branding and social media development. Her writing appears in Saw Palm, South 85 Journal, Crab Fat Magazine,  and HoneySuckle Magazine, among others. She lectures full-time in the English language translation department of a Saudi university. Her solo fine arts shows merge poetry with acrylic on canvas paintings. Her next one is titled Saudi Tracks and will launch in Edinburgh, Scotland (2021).

She is the lead strategist for The Kite Zine and previously served as the lead strategist for Teach North Korean Refugees, both of which are nonprofits that have led to multiple TED talks and memoirs/published works by participants and founders.

She holds a BA in English from Brigham Young University, where she edited two lit mags and ran a nonprofit for struggling students. She was a proud NYC Teaching Fellow and a shy singer and dancer for Walt Disney World.  She is earning an MA in TESOL from Middlebury and an MFA from SAIC.