About

Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer, writing coach and book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and Willamette Week. She is the author of the novella Sexy Life, Hello and numerous short stories, which have appeared in places like The Masters Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, 8142 Review and many others.

As a writing coach she specializes in developmental editing for novels and memoirs and works on national book tours and author press campaigns.

Michelle is the Founding Editor of Banana Pitch Press, a nonprofit independent press that publishes novellas and memoirellas with a focus on work, in all its forms. She is the producer and host of The Banana Pitch Variety Show and radio show, a recorded variety show featuring interviews and performances by writers, musicians, comedians and “others.”

She writes Things I Don’t Want My Mom to Read and her nonfiction has been published in 580 Split, The Deli, The Bay Bridged, Forbes, SF Station, The Cutaway, Into The Void, Portland Monthly and many others.

Michelle holds an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and is a writing instructor for Literary Arts, Litquake, Portland Community College, and others. She occasionally co-writes a book, has ghostwritten several memoirs and nonfiction books, and just completed a novel. She is at work on her third book.

Read her unofficial bio here.