Michal (Mitak) Mahgerefteh is a poet and artist from Norfolk - Alexandria, Virginia. Her poetry and art have been published in many literary magazines, recent publications: art published by Club Plum Literary Journal (2022), art published on the front cover of Essential Anthology: COVID edition (2022), Dashboard Horus blog (2022), Al-Khemia Poetica (2022), featured poet by The Poet Magazine (England-2022), Medical Literary Messenger (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2022), Mindful Magazine (England-2022), Soul-Lit: A Journal of Spiritual Poetry (2021), The Poet Magazine (England-2021), Grey Thoughts Magazine (2021), Medicine and Meaning Magazine (University of Arkansas Medical Press, 2021), Global Voices Group Newsletter (Israel-2021), The Jewish Writing Project (2021), ARC Magazine (Israel-2021), Verbal 2 Exhibit: Artists and Poets Collaboration (2021), Club Plum Journal (2021), Agape Review (2021), The Wild Word Magazine (2021), Eve Anthology (2021), Edify Fiction Magazine (2021), Baruch Literary Blog (2021), among others. 

Michal is the managing editor of Poetica Magazine and Miriam Rachimi Prize. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks: In My Bustan (2009), What's Left Behind (2014), Field of Harps (2016), and Sipping Memories (2018). Forthcoming collections: The Rising Song (2022) and FishMoon (2022).  She is an active member of Women Who Write and Submit, The Poetry Society of Virginia, The Muse Writers Center, Chesapeake Bay Artist Association, Torpedo Factory Art Center, and Voices Israel Global Writers Group, among others. 

In her free time, Michal enjoys bike riding, hiking, visiting botanical gardens, cooking for her family, world travel, and making abstract art.