Michelle Buckman

Michelle Buckman is a freelance writer, columnist, and author of Christian fiction.
Born in Albany, NY, she spent her early childhood in Ontario, Canada, then moved to Greensboro, NC. She attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill then married Tommy Buckman and transferred to Pitt Community College in Greenville, NC, to earn a degree in computer programming. After graduating, she and her husband lived in Washington, NC and then Gastonia, NC, before moving to South Carolina. They have five children.
Her novels are contemporary stories plotted around issues facing women and teens today, including infertility, abstinence, rape, molestation, and teen pregnancy. Her books are Christian in that they offer a Christian world-view of morals and depict characters applying their faith as they work through the story's conflict, but her writing is defined as being "grit-lit" in that it faces issues straight on, often with scenes meant to stimulate emotional responses in readers.
Buckman's teen series, The Pathway Collection, which includes Maggie Come Lately and My Beautiful Disaster, has been endorsed by Jordin Sparks, American Idol 2007, and reviewed by Earl Hamner, creator of The Waltons.
Her latest novel is Rachel's Contrition (Sophia Institute Press, 2010), which reveals her Catholic background in a story about a grief-stricken woman whose slip into insanity is halted when she finds a holy card of St. Therese of Lisieux.
She claims inspiration from writers Anne Tyler, Pat Conroy and Anne Rivers Siddons, and greatly admires Maeve Binchy's work.
Works
Novels
*A Piece of the Sky (2005)
*Pretty Maids All In A Row (2006)(co-authored)
*The Pathway Collection: Maggie Come Lately (2007)
*The Pathway Collection: My Beautiful Disaster (2007)
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