Michelle Renee Lane writes dark speculative fiction about identity politics and women of color battling their inner demons while falling in love with monsters. Her work includes elements of fantasy, horror, romance, and occasionally erotica. Her short fiction appears in several anthologies. Her Bram Stoker Award nominated debut novel, Invisible Chains (2019), is available from Haverhill House Publishing.

Born and raised in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania, Michelle spent countless hours of her youth obsessed with the occult and consumed by vampire fiction. She climbed into strangers’ cars, explored abandoned buildings seeking secret passageways to hidden worlds, taught herself to read Tarot cards, and consulted the dead with a Ouija board. Michelle’s first and subsequent heartbreaks have given her much material for her cautionary tales about the perils of falling in love with monsters. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.

How to Support Me

• Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michellereneelane
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Renee-Lane/e/B07Q7XSJR5

Publications

• “Crossroads” (2019), Terror Politico: A Screaming World in Chaos, Scary Dairy Press
• Invisible Chains (2019), Haverhill House Publishing
• “Thus Do We Reach the Stars” (2019), The Monstrous Feminine: Dark Tales of Dangerous Women, Scary Dairy Press
• “African Twilight” (2020), The Dystopian States of AMERICA: A Charity Anthology Benefiting the ACLU Foundation, Haverhill House Publishing
• “Cicada Song” (2020), Graveyard Smash: Women of Horror Anthology Volume 2, Kandisha Press
• “The Hag Stone” (2020), Dead Awake: 12 Tales of Darkness, Crimson Creek Press
• “Hunger” (2020), Midnight & Indigo: 22 Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers, midnight & indigo
• “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” (2020), episode 1019 of The Wicked Library: Christmassacre 2020
• “Josephine” (2021) The One That Got Away: Women of Horror Anthology Volume 3, Kandisha Press
• “An Acid Trip Through Time” (2021), episode 1102 of The Wicked Library: A Collection of Dark Tales
• “Am I Really a Horror Writer?” (2021) Writers Workshop of Horror 2, Hydra Publications

Interviews

• Interview: Michelle Renee Lane, Author of INVISIBLE CHAINS
  7/8/2019
• BREAKING THE INVISIBLE CHAINS, A FIVE MINUTES WITH MICHELLE R. LANE
  7/10/2019
• 5 Questions for Michelle Renee Lane
  7/22/2019
• My Favorite Things with Michelle Renee Lane
  7/22/2019
• RELEASING INVISIBLE CHAINS: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHELLE RENEE LANE
  8/7/2019
• Interview: Michelle Renee Lane about Diversity, Race, New Orleans, and Her Book Invisible Chains
  2/20/2020
• Halloween Book Festival 2020 – Michelle Renee Lane
  10/10/20

Reviews

• Review: Invisible Chains by Michelle Renee Lane
  8/14/2019
• The Power of Women is More than Just Magic
  11/17/2019
• Invisible Chains by Michelle Renee Lane
  11/20/2019
• What We’ve Been Reading #31, Ladies of Horror Fiction
  12/18/2019
• Ben Walker’s Best Reads Of 2019
  1/23/2020
• A Crescent City Fright: Invisible Chains
  1/26/2020
• Invisible Chains by Michelle Renee Lane
  4/12/2020

Panels, Presentations & Virtual Events

• StoryFest 2020 – Beyond Stoker: Contemporary Visions of Vampires
  9/15/2020

• Salem Horror Fest Reading
  10/1/2020

• Multiverse 2020: Justice in the Machine
  10/17/2020

• Multiverse 2020: Horror as a Social Platform
  10/18/2020

• Multiverse 2020: Academic Presentation: “With This Ring, You’ll Be Dead: The Acceptance of Violence Against Female Protagonists in Romantic Vampire Fiction”
  10/18/2020

• Scream Queens: The History and Future of Women in Horror
  10/20/2020
• Pittsburgh HWA Halloween Reading
  10/24/2020

• “Women in Horror: Expanding the Horror Canon”, with Jewelle Gomez, University of Pittsburgh Library System Horror Studies Webinar Series
  4/6/2021

Social Media

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themichellerlane
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichelleRLane
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelle_writes_stuff/

Guest Blogs

Medium: https://medium.com/@chellane
Speculative Chic: https://speculativechic.com/author/chellane72/

Podcasts

• PODCAST: SHADOWS OF THE VAMPIRES
• The New Panic Room Episode 175
• WRITING YOUR FIRST NOVEL – The Horror Show With Brian Keene – Ep 256

YouTube Videos

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