Heather McElhatton Bio

(McElhatton rhymes with TACKLE-LATIN)

Heather McElhatton is a writer and independent
producer for Public Radio International. Her
commentaries and stories have been heard nationally
on This American Life, Marketplace,Weekend
America, Sound Money and The Savvy Traveler. She
also produced the radio literary series Talking
Volumes. Heathers audio archive can be found at
www.mpr.org

She has had several
short stories published,
including “Red Shoes”
which was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize in
2001. Writer/publisher
Joyce Carol Oates
published the story in
Princeton’s literary
magazine, The Ontario
Review that same year.

Heather's new radio show is called STAGE SESSIONS
and is held in front of a live audience at the Fitzgerald
Theater in St Paul, Minnesota. The show is aired on
Minnesota Public Radio a week later. Guests have
included Sebastian Junger, Ann Bancroft, Bill Holm
and Robert Bly. Their work is combined with other
musicians, poets and humorists.

Besides ongoing reporting and radio commentary,
Heather appeared on Ira Glass’s very first episode of
the television version of This American Life. Her debut
novel is a choose-your-own-ending book for adults
called Pretty Little Mistakes soon to be followed by the
sequel, "Million Little Mistakes."

This year HarperCollins will also publish Heather
McElhattons new book "Aberage American Female,"
the companion book to the bestseller, "Average
American Male." More info at www.harpercollins.com