Michelle T. Clemens

Michelle T. Clemens is a St. John’s–born writer, producer, and director whose work spans theatre, film, storytelling, and fiction. She has won multiple Arts & Letters Awards, including for Poetry and Dramatic Script. Her play Showdown received a dramatic reading at Persistence Theatre’s 2024 Year of the Arts Women’s Play Festival and was selected for the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s International Craft Bites Program. Her three original comedies have played to sold-out audiences at the Barbara Barrett Theatre.

Clemens co-created the documentary Raise Her Up: Celebrating 100 Years of Votes, broadcast on NTV in 2025, and produced the short film Saturday, set to debut in fall 2026. She also performs original short stories as a regular storyteller at St. John’s Storytelling events.

A Respectable Woman is Michelle’s second novel. Her first, The Girls of Belvedere, appeared on the Atlantic Books Today bestseller list.



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