Michelle Threadgould is a Chicana journalist and poet. Her work has been featured in CNN, KQED, New York Observer and Latino USA. Seven of her essays were in the music bible Women Who Rock, parts of her poetry collection, Broken Borders have appeared in the Chachalaca Review and the Harpy Hybrid Review, and her debut book Why Rage Against the Machine Matters is slated to be released in 2022 by University of Texas Press.