Michele Andrea Bowen grew up in St. Louis, MO, with a large, church-going family. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, and also the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has worked in Social Work, Public Health, and Education.
Michele became one of the groundbreaking writers in the area of contemporary African American Christian Fiction when her first novel, was published in the summer of 2001. She continued to delight her readers with down-home, funny, uplifting, and heartwarming novels like , , , and
Now, she will reach out to readers with a brand new three-part novel series called "The Pastor's Aide Club." , the first novel in the series, will be out this summer (2014). It answers, finally, all of the questions readers have had about Pastor-FBI Agent, Rev. Denzelle Flowers. But don't worry, the other two novels in "The Pastor's Aide Club" series, and , are sure to 'set to rest' questions readers have had about Charles Robinson and Veronica Washington, along with Charles' employee, Bay Bowser. When readers finish having some serious laughter-filled 'shaking my head' moments from , they will definitely be ready for a second and third helping of 'Miss Michele's contemporary church folk' with and .