Michelle Kicherer is a fiction writer from California living in Portland. She writes book reviews and interviews for the San Francisco Chronicle, Willamette Week and others. Her fiction has been published in The Master’s Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review, Rougarou, 8142 Review and others, and has earned her the Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize in Fiction and the Leila Aba Saba Prize for Prose Writing. Her novella SEXY LIFE, HELLO was longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award and won an Oregon Regional Arts and Culture Council Grant. Michelle teaches writing classes at Portland Community College, Literary Arts and online, and often encourages her students to get a little weirder. SEXY LIFE, HELLO is her debut fiction book.