Michelle (Messina) Reale[1] (January 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania) is an Italian-American poet, academic and ethnographer.
Reale is a full professor[2] at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among master's degrees in English and library and information science, she has an MFA in creative writing with a concentration in poetry. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.