Professional/Personal Overview
New York times bestselling author, award-winning fiction writer and essayist.
Work Info
Expertise
Editor
5 Years
Writer
15 Years
Book Author
12 Years
Specialty
Sex
8 Years
Travel
7 Years
Books & Literature
12 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
20 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
Lonely Planet (3-5), Salon (3-5), San Francisco Chronicle Magazine (1-2), Writer's Digest (1-2), Playboy Magazine (1-2), Coastal Living (1-2)
Other Work History
Principal at Bay Area Book Doctor. Publisher of Fiction Attic Press. Distinguished Visiting Writer at Notre Dame de Namur University, St. Mary's College of Moraga, and Bowling Green State University.
Foreign Language Skills
French, basic fluency
Awards
Associated Writing Programs Award, Hillsdale Award for Fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, James Michener Fellowship, Two-time finalist for Northern California Book Award
Associations
PEN America West, Authors Guild
Other
Eight years experience teaching creative writing at the graduate level
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near San Francisco, CA. I am willing to travel regionally. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
Essays
(The Kenyon Review , 3/10/2008)
Reflections on the pod in nature and modern life: a study in isolation
(San Francisco Chronicle Magazine , 4/29/2007)
Like a Wes Craven flick or an amusement park house of horrors, the stories we read, and the stories we tell, serve as a repository for the unthinkable. By way of story, we relegate the terrible to the realm of the imagination. And then we rely on the flimsiest of things -- vigilance and good luck --
Travel
(The Guardian Newspaper, UK , 7/11/2009)
New York Times bestselling author Michelle Richmond loves San Francisco for its beauty, literary scene and 'a live-and-let-live vibe'.
(Lonely Planet anthology: By the Seat of My Pants , 8/1/2005)
A tale of romantic misadventure in the Southernmost town in the world
(Travelers Tales: Adventures in Wine )
A honeymoon adventure in Eger, Hungary, leads to the valley's famous wine, Bull's Blood.
Book Reviews
(The Believer , 2/1/2007)
A review of Sheri Joseph's novel STRAY
Sex
(Salon.com , 7/22/2004)
A trip to the Library Hotel in New York City with my husband three months into my pregnancy revealed the sexy little secret about pregnancy: it's very good for the libido.
(Salon.com , 12/10/2003)
It's December now, and the Christmas tree industry's booming, and I just can't get my mind around shopping and party hopping, Johnny Mathis and candy canes and marshmallows by the fire. This time of year, I can’t seem to think about anything but that most spectacular of species, the Christmas Tree
(Salon.com , 6/26/2002)
I have gone to bed with men, in part, for the beauty or agility or originality of their hands.
Current Events
(San Francisco Chronicle blog , 12/11/2012)
When good people avert their eyes, the weakest among us suffer
Parenting
(San Francisco Chronicle Magazine , 3/12/2005)
Parenting essay: A baby's fixation on the miniature defies analysis.
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
