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The writing life. It’s what I wanted for years – and finally had the courage to embrace.
I’m an author of two published books, with a third forthcoming in spring 2020. I’m a partner in The Writers Circle, which offers creative writing classes to children, teens & adults in five NJ locations, a freelance writer and editor for corporate and nonprofit clients and an editor of creative writing – as well as the supremely proud mother of two grown children.
Beyond the Ghetto Gates Coming April 7!
Beyond the Ghetto Gates is a historical novel set during the turbulent days of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Italian campaign (1796-97). When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city’s Jews from their repressive ghetto, two very different cultures collide.
“A gripping peek into a bygone Italy and an astute look at the era’s prejudice.” — Kirkus Review
“Beyond the Ghetto Gates is a timeless coming-of-age story.” — 4 star Foreword Clarion Review
Read more about the novel.
See Advance Praise for Beyond the Ghetto Gates.
See the Beyond the Ghetto Gates book tour.
To book an Author Visit and for Press Inquiries, visit the Contact Page.
NEW! Between the Ghetto Gates Book Club Guide
COVID-19 NOTICE
Right now, my in-person book tour is posted as it was planned,with postponements and cancellations noted. I expect further schedule changes as it is doubtful things will be back to normal for a few months. However, so many people have stepped up to help authors in my predicament promote via social media – and I’m grateful to them all. I’ve listed those events, with links, as a new Social Media tour below, and moved events taking place via Zoom into that list. Hoping everyone stays healthy and safe in this crisis!
Read (Hear, Watch) My Latest
Clea Simon’s “Five Questions with Michelle Cameron.” Read it here.
Moment Magazine‘s B’shert (Soulmate) column, talking about how my husband and I were “Bonded by the Bard.” Read it here.
Featured reader in Murphy Writing at Stockton University’s Virtual Reading on March 27 – Watch it here.
Reading from Kitty O’Meara’s poem, “And the People Stayed Home” with other authors who are publishing books during this difficult period. For The Jewish Journal. Watch it here.
A Few Kind Words About My Previous Books
The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz
A book as rich as the cover illustration, The Fruit of Her Hands is based on the life of Cameron’s 13th century ancestor, Meir Ben Baruch, a renowned Jewish scholar of medieval Europe. The Fruit of Her Hands is a dramatic fictional tale centered on the character of Meir Ben Baruch’s wife, Shira. The book paints a picture of the dawning of the renaissance; a society faced with prejudices and one woman’s fight for justice and equality. – Jewish Scene Magazine
The Fruit of Her Hands is equally rich as history and fiction. Most readers probably know that anti-Semitism was prevalent in Medieval Europe, but in Cameron’s skilled hands, the reader experiences with pounding heart how horrifying, brutal, and pervasive it was. . . . a book so rich with wonderful characters, vivid settings, and an absolutely lush and wonderful depiction of the strengths of the medieval Jewish home and community. This is a first-rate choice for Jewish book clubs. – The San Diego Jewish World
In the Shadow of the Globe
In The Shadow of the Globe is an astonishing surprise. Michelle Cameron has conjured a world and spun a poetic tale that not only honors and exalts Shakespeare and his universe but brings it to vivid, visceral, and heartbreaking life. It is a unique and breathtaking work of art inspired by the man and the theatre that defined humanity in its totality. — Bonnie J. Monte, Artistic Director, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
I love your epic poem. It’s fun, insightful, imaginative. One might nitpick your chronology, but who cares? I am half-way through it, enjoying it immensely, but my heart leaped at Cuthbert’s advice to Peter Street on how to build a playhouse. How right, how accurate: a machine in which to act, not a celebration of the art of scenic design, not built in accordance with the physics of the motion picture projector, no ceremonial hall for wine-and-cheese shmoozing, no architectural monument to someone’s wealth. A machine in which to act, where the alchemy of the Playwright’s words in the actors’ bodies can be realized by the sense of the audience to create the delicate magic of theatre. God bless you, dear lady, you and Cuthbert nailed it. – Paul Barry, Founder of the NJ Shakespeare Festival and director of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays
