Michelle Roche Rodríguez's  work explores the relationships among gender, power, the body, violence, memory, and myth through fiction, short stories, essays, and cultural journalism. In her coming-of-age novel Malasangre (Anagrama, 2020), the fantastic and the historical converge in the Venezuela of the “Roaring Twenties.” The novel was a finalist for the Celsius and Kelvin 505 Awards in 2021. In 2017, she received the Francisco Ayala Narrative Prize for her short-story collection Gente decente (Musa a las 9), which focuses on the tensions of family life. Her essay Madre mía que estás en el mito (Sílex, 2016) examines the construction of the Virgin Mary as a cultural artifact of male hegemony in the West. In 2013, she published her first book, Álbum de familia: Conversaciones sobre la identidad cultural en Venezuela (Alfa). Her short stories have appeared in anthologies and literary journals. An English translation of her short story “Madre de leche” will appear in Issue 122 of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas in spring 2027.

She is an Adjunct Professor at IE School of Arts and Humanities, where she teaches Research and Academic Writing Skills. She has contributed to Babelia, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, TURIA, Revista Santiago, Literal: Latin American Voices, and Letras Libres. She founded and directed Colofón Revista Literaria and worked for the Arts & Culture section of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional. She holds a PhD, cum laude, in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid and an MA in Cultural Studies from New York University. Born in Caracas, she has lived in Madrid since 2015.