Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer, manuscript consultant, and book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and Willamette Week.

Her writing has been published in The Masters Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, 8142 Review, 580 Split, The Deli, The Bay Bridged, Forbes, SF Station, The Cutaway, Into The Void, Portland Monthly and many others.

Her novella SEXY LIFE, HELLO was released in September 2024 with an author-performed audiobook and arrives in print on March 6, 2025. Kirkus Reviews gave SEXY LIFE, HELLO a “Get It” recommendation and called it “An eye-opening satire that is as cheeky as it is unsparing.”

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Michelle holds an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and is a writing instructor for Literary Arts, Litquake, Portland Community College, The Attic Institute, and Writing Workshops. She loves to dissect stories and is always encouraging her students to get a little weirder. Michelle offers limited writing coach slots each year with a focus on developmental editing. She occasionally co-writes a book, has ghostwritten several memoirs and nonfiction books, and just completed her novel.

Michelle 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 founded the nonprofit publishing house Banana Pitch Press in 2024, open for submissions in January 2025.

Read her unofficial bio here.