MICHELE PETERS writes from the heart with the goal of bringing light into dark places. She believes in love first, always. She lives in the Pacific Northwest, US, and realized she had stories people wanted to hear when she auditioned for and read on the nationally syndicated stage show Listen to Your Mother in Spokane, Washington, in 2022. She is a contributor to Her View From Home and has two essays published in So God Made A Grandma, released March 2025. Her essay, One-Hit Wonder, is published in The Loss of a Lifetime: Grieving Siblings Share Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope released June 2025. She's working on her coming-of-age memoir and regularly publishes her non-fiction essays at Light Into Dark Places on Substack.