Michelle Morris is currently serving as a United Methodist pastor in the Arkansas Annual Conference. She has a B.A. in English and French and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Arkansas. She graduated with her M.Div. from Perkins School of Theology in 2009 and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University in 2014. She also graduated with a certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. Her dissertation examined the subject of infertility in the New Testament.
Michelle and her husband, Travis, have a son, Soren (not named for Kierkegaard).