Michelle T. Clemens is a writer, producer, director, and actor born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. She won two Arts and Letters Awards. Showdown won the 2023 Dramatic Script, and Ready, Aim won in 2022 for Poetry. Showdown had a dramatic reading at Persistence Theatre’s Year of the Arts Women’s Play Festival in 2024, and it was part of the Playwriters Guild of Canda’s International Craft Bites Program. Michelle’s three-act play Mummering, Mischief and Murder: A Tibbs Eve Farce sold out in December 2023, and Boomerang, another three-act play, debuted at the Barbara Barrett Theatre to near-capacity houses.

Clemens wrote, directed, and produced The Odds of That, a short film, which won Best First Time Film at the 4Theatre Film Festival and was selected for several film festivals: the Nickle International, the Smith Sound, and the Parrsboro Atlantic. She wrote and starred in the comedy It’s All Fun and Games, which also screened at the Smith Sound in 2023. Her screenplay Success won the Best Short Film Screenplay at Australia’s Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival 2024. She has co-written and produced half a dozen other short films since 2022. Michelle is a regular storyteller with St. John’s Storytelling events, where she performs her original short stories.

The Girls of Belvedere is her first novel. Michelle is blessed with a supportive husband, family, and friends who are essential to her success.