An award-winning novelist and screenwriter, M.E. Lange moves between the intimate and the epic — from a tender, funny reckoning with midlife in Pause… and Effect to the sweeping speculative world of Arc, now being adapted for the screen as New Eden. Before M.E. (Michelle Erika) Lange turned to writing novels and screenplays as a creative outlet, she had a 30-year career in high-tech engineering, marketing, and technical writing. In recent years, compelled by what she sees as the injustices and ills of our society, Michelle has turned to the page as both therapy for herself and to compel her readers to awaken, think deeply, and act to make their lives and the world at large a better place. Michelle is married, has two daughters and two step-daughters, and when she’s not traveling, splits her time between her native Oregon and the U.S. Virgin Islands.