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Michelle Ule, Fall 2018
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Michelle Ule Short Bio
Long-time Bible study leader and blogger Michelle Ule is a graduate of UCLA and the biographer of both Mrs.Oswald Chambers (compiler of My Utmost for His Highest) and Lettie Cowman (Streams in the Desert). She’s the author of six published historical fiction works and a contributor to Utmost Ongoing: Reflections on the Legacy of Oswald Chambers.
Michelle lives in northern California with her family.
You can learn more about her at www.michelleule.com
For information on her books, visit this page.
Longer Author Bio
Inspirational writer Michelle Ule is a native of Southern California. She graduated from UCLA where she wrote for the UCLA Daily Bruin.
She is the biographer of Baker Book Publishing’s Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman Behind the World’s Bestselling Devotional (October 2017). She’s also an essayist in Discovery House’s Utmost Ongoing: Reflections on the Legacy of Oswald Chambers (August 2017).
She published Overflowing Faith: Lettie Cowman and Streams in the Desert, a biography, in June 2023.
Michelle is the author of five inspirational historical novellas and two novels. Her debut novella, “The Dogtrot Christmas,” was published in Barbour Publishing’s A Log Cabin Christmas Collection. The collection appeared on The New York Times bestseller list on October 2, 2011.
Three of her novellas have appeared in ECPA bestselling collections.
In March 2025, she contributed three articles and photographs to an Oswald Chambers-focused issue of Christian History Magazine.
A longtime Bible study leader and genealogist, Michelle worked at a literary agency for 20 years, and loves to travel. She lives in northern California with her family.
You can read her weekly blog every Tuesday and learn more about her at www.michelleule.com
Contact Information
Michelle Ule is represented by Janet Kobobel Grant of Books & Such Literary Agency.
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Additional Author Photos
Video Clips
Michelle discusses the true story found in “The Gold Rush Christmas” in a 90-second clip.
A 2013 clip describes all four books in one minute from the same interview on Authors, Writers, Books and Beyond.
Here’s a half-hour interview on the Barb Marshall Show discussing Bridging Two Hearts, fear, writing, and military life.
Here’s a 2024 hour-long interview about Lettie Cowman Michelle did with Joanna Weaver’s The Living Room: https://linktw.in/oukFWz
The story behind My Utmost for His Highest with Joanna Weaver on The Living Room.
Interviews and Podcasts
A full list of all the Mrs. Oswald Chambers‘ interviews and podcasts can be viewed here.
Publisher’s Weekly: “Religious Biographies Spotlight Inspiring Lives,” July 14, 2017
Women Worth Knowing Podcast : Lettie Cowman, 2024: Part 2, Part 3;
Women Worth Knowing Podcast: Biddy Chambers, 2023: Part 1 Part 2
Blog post about Mrs. Oswald Chambers on Joanna Weaver’s website, December 2017
A discussion of Pandita Ramabai’s life in January 2025 on Women Worth Knowing: Part I, Part 2, Part 3.