Michelle Burleson

Welcome to Michelle's alter ego world of Kimchi Rhinestone, the Amerasian Honky-Tonk Angel. Please keep your hands and feet in at all times until the ride has come to a complete stop.

Kimchi is a wayward woman of many worlds: Deep South, Far East, Far Out. She muses on mullets, waxes poetic on PMS and defines the boundaries of office bathroom behavior one rhyme at a time.

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Sometimes it's hard to be a woman. Especially when raised with a little soy sauce in your white rice, deep in the heart of Dixie. Michelle Burleson's American Air Force father and Korean mother trotted her family across the country, and then the globe, with Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger as the soundtrack. Her unique childhood planted the seeds for this collection of quirky poems and award-winning song lyrics.

Written from the perspective of Kimchi Rhinestone, a wannabe half-Korean country queen,  you'll meet a wayward woman of many worlds: Deep South, Far East, Far Out. She muses on mullets, evangelizes for Lezzies for the Lord, waxes poetic on PMS and defines the boundaries of office bathroom behavior one rhyme at a time. Kimchi Rhinestone always wanted to play the Grand Ol' Opry but she'll settle for you checking out her book of ladylike lewd limericks.  It will make you smell great, lose weight, and prevent the global collapse of economies and souffles. Most of all, it will make you laugh.

Kimchi's alter ego, Michelle Burleson, currently traipses around the West Coast with her animals looking for waves and funny ways to play with words. She also has a full set of teeth (as of today) and semi-acceptable table manners.

Check out The Confessions of Kimchi Rhinestone on Amazon. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll call your priest.

You can find Michelle somewhere in the ocean or here:

• Facebook (self-explanatory)
• Twitter (somewhat self-explanatory in 140 characters or less)
• Cousin Burly Slept Here (blog of babble)

When Michelle's not volunteering as shark bait, she's an award-winning musician, author and screenwriter whose work is featured at The Second City, festivals across the country and reviewed in American Songwriter Magazine and The Washington Post, among many others. She is currently writing a children's book of poems and screenplay.