Michelle Blanchard Ardillo

Michelle Blanchard Ardillo

Michelle Blanchard Ardillo is a freelance writer who has retired from two decades in the legal field and two decades in education, but writing has always been a major part of her life. Her essays and articles have been published in HuffPost, AARP The Girlfriend, The Catholic Standard, The Our Parish Times, Washington Family, Baltimore’s Child, Montgomery Magazine, Missio, and more.


She is currently at work on her first novel set in her beloved home state of Louisiana. She is also working on a nonfiction book for middle schoolers about the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary where Mary appeared to children. When not writing, she is an avid reader and an accomplished home cook with a serious case of wanderlust. She lives and writes in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.