Michelle Salem

Originally born in Macon, Georgia, Michelle had lived every where but Macon up until a year and a half ago. After falling in love with Brian, a local business owner in downtown who is both an artist of goldsmithing, painting, and a visionary leader in downtown, she was drawn back to the town of her birth where she now leads a semi-contented life working for a credit union and spending most slow days writing poetry and her nights frequenting local bars (yet never drinking). She tell's the tales of other such revolutionaries in a town that has so much musical, visual, and intellectual talent but are not noticed by the Starbuck drinking, Kohl's shopping, McDonald's eating society into which the downtown Mactropolis is now surrounded. Michelle survives with the hope that her surrounding's will continue to thrive and that her area will be rejuvenated. She also hopes that one day her family will understand that she made the right decision.