Michelle Richmond

New York Times bestselling author and veteran writing teacher Michelle Richmond will bring her expertise in writing, publishing, and creativity to your corporate event or writers' group.

Corporations: Whether you’re seeking a great team building exercise or striving to streamline costs by helping your team members communicate more effectively, the Bay Area Book Doctor's Corporate Writing Seminars are a smart, cost-effective solution.

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Michelle has published four books of fiction, including the international bestseller The Year of Fog. As the 2011 selection of Silicon Valley Reads, Michelle spoke with groups all over Silicon Valley, ranging in size from a dozen to four hundred. In addition to speaking at numerous writing conferences, she has led writing workshops at 826 Valencia in San Francisco, Gotham Writers' Workshop, the Northern California Writers Conference, and the Foothills Writers Conference. She has appeared on City Arts and Lectures, Talk of the Nation, KQED’s The Writer’s Block, and BBC News.

Michelle holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Miami, where she was a James Michener Fellow. She has served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at St. Mary’s College of Moraga and Bowling Green State University, and currently holds the Sister Catharine Mary Cunningham Chair at Notre Dame de Namur University. She has taught in the Masters of Fine Arts programs in creative writing at the University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts.

Michelle is the author of four books of fiction, including the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress and the international bestseller The Year of Fog. Her articles and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies. She has written for Playboy, 7X7, The Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Lonely Planet, and many other publications. She currently blogs for the San Francisco Chronicle and is the founder and publisher of Fiction Attic Press.