Michelle Dowd

Michelle Dowd is a professor of journalism and contributor to the New York Times , Alpinist , The Los Angeles Book Review , Catapult , OnlySky , and other national publications. She founded The Chaffey Review, an award-winning literary journal, advises student media, teaches poetry and critical thinking in the California State prisons and has been recognized as a Longreads Top 5 for The Thing with Feathers, on the relationship between environmentalism and hope. She guides yoga and meditation...See more

Michelle Dowd is a professor of journalism and contributor to the New York Times , Alpinist , The Los Angeles Book Review , Catapult , OnlySky , and other national publications. She founded The Chaffey Review, an award-winning literary journal, advises student media, teaches poetry and critical thinking in the California State prisons and has been recognized as a Longreads Top 5 for The Thing with Feathers, on the relationship between environmentalism and hope. She guides yoga and meditation workshops throughout southern California, where she hikes the peaks with her four dogs. See less