Michelle Seaton

Michelle Seaton is the coauthor, with psychologist Dr. Anthony Rao, of The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys. Her essay "How to Work a Locker Room" appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading in 2009. The essay is based on Michelle's experience covering the National Hockey League for the National Public Radio sports show "Only a Game," a program for which she has been a frequent contributor for more than 14 years. Michelle's previous book projects include The Cardiac Recovery Handbook, which she coauthored with Dr. Paul Kligfield, the Medical Director of Cardiology at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. She has been a frequent contributor to Robb Report magazine and a senior contributor to Worth magazine, for which she has written about business succession planning, treasure hunting and big jets. Her fiction and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in One Story, Harvard Review, the Sycamore Review, and The Pinch.

Michelle has been a creative nonfiction instructor with Grub Street, Inc., a nonprofit writing center in Boston, since 2000. She teaches advanced classes in narrative nonfiction, and several classes on essays. She is the lead instructor and created the curriculum for Grub Street's Memoir Project, a program that offers free memoir classes to senior citizens in Boston city neighborhoods. The project has traveled to fourteen neighborhoods in Boston; its three anthologies are: Born Before Plastic; My Legacy Is Simply This; and Sometimes They Sang With Us. The fourth anthology is due at the end of 2013. Recently, the project visited Nantcucket, and the anthology from those classes is called Little Grey Island. (Photo by Beverly Hall)