Michelle Kicherer

Portland

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Writer || Bylines @sfchronicle @willametteweek Debut novella: Sexy Life, Hello - out Sept 6 digitally/print March 6

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Michelle Kicherer's Creative Club

2 weeks ago | michellekicherer.substack.com | Michelle Kicherer

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A Million Trees, and Their Stories

2 weeks ago | wweek.com | Michelle Kicherer

This story is published in cooperation with Willamette Week and Friends of TreesIn 2021, the New York Times referred to trees as “stationary superheroes” in the increasingly difficult fight against climate change. As catastrophic events like wildfires, flooding and heatwaves are on the rise, climate change advocates are seeking innovative and implementable solutions. Back in 1989, Friends of Trees founder Richard Seidman had an idea. Trees. It may sound simple, because it is.
Satire 'Sexy Life, Hello' predicted inevitable outing of adult stars' ghost sexters

3 weeks ago | michellekicherer.substack.com | Michelle Kicherer

News hit this morning that two men are suing OnlyFans after realizing that the person they’re talking to on the other end might not be who they think it is. The novella Sexy Life, Hello, which came out on March 6 on Banana Pitch Press, offers just such a scenario. When a school teacher-turned nanny takes on a ghost sexter-for-hire position (which she navigates while nannying for twin toddlers named Franny and Zooey), she starts raking in the dough.
SEXY LIFE, HELLO

1 month ago | kirkusreviews.com | Michelle Kicherer |Kristin Hannah |Alison Espach

An eye-opening satire that’s as cheeky as it is unsparing. In Kicherer’s debut novella, a woman balances her dual jobs acting as a nanny to twin babies and sexting for a porn star. After she’s caught in a compromising situation, California teacher Jane is unceremoniously fired. She then applies for the “types of jobs that [won’t] check a record.” Fortunately, she finds one—a couple (including a popular writer of airport novels) takes her on as nanny to their 10-month-olds Franny and Zooey.
Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” Tackles Historical Inequalities With Magic and Grace

1 month ago | wweek.com | Michelle Kicherer

Harp Oletsky’s first memory is from his sixth birthday. His father steers him into the center of a jack drive: Dozens of men have corralled hundreds of jack rabbits into a pen. The jack rabbits have wreaked havoc on the already-suffering Nebraskan crops. “Worse than locusts,” his father says.
Michelle Kicherer's Creative Club

1 month ago | michellekicherer.substack.com | Michelle Kicherer

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Bristol Vaudrin’s “Afterward” Is a Story of Depression, Avoidance and Acceptance

1 month ago | wweek.com | Michelle Kicherer

Lauren is used to a simple life, one full of sex, bar hopping, and a job that pays the bills, more or less. Things feel exciting and stable and fun—until she arrives home one day to a tragedy she could never have imagined. Portland author Bristol Vaudrin’s debut novel, Afterward (Tortoise Books, 242 pages, $18.99), follows narrator Lauren Delgado through the messy aftermath of navigating a loved one’s trauma and the ripple effect that event has on her own life.
Portland writer Olufunke Grace Bankole’s Debut Novel Delivers a Complex Look at an Immigrant Experience

2 months ago | wweek.com | Michelle Kicherer

By the time Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, Olufunke Grace Bankole no longer lived there, but she couldn’t stop thinking about the West African market women she would see during her frequent strolls to the French Market. Bankole, who had moved to the States with her parents at age 8, then attended Harvard Law School on a prestigious scholarship, was aware of her unique privilege as she strolled these markets.
Charming Movie-Based Musical “Amélie” Takes Portland Playhouse to Paris

Nov 5, 2024 | wweek.com | Michelle Kicherer

In 2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s French-language romantic comedy Amélie charmed hearts all over the world. It’s a unique and fantastical story about a socially anxious but curious young woman who one day finds an old metal box in the bathroom of her Paris apartment. Upon realizing the box holds decades-old treasures, she seeks to find its owner to return it.
In her Memoir “First in the Family,” Latinx Writer Jessica Hoppe Explores Addiction, Sobriety and Being Seen

Oct 29, 2024 | wweek.com | Michelle Kicherer

At the peak of the pandemic, Jessica Hoppe was living in New York and had been sober for about four years. She regularly attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in person up until lockdown, when meetings, like most things, moved online. After a few months, she was “set to autopilot,” often only vaguely listening to the mostly white members during their shares—until one afternoon, she heard something that made her start. “I just wanted to identify as a person of color in recovery,” said the voice.

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11 Apr 25

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Michelle Kicherer @M_Kicherer

3 Apr 25

Novella 'Sexy Life, Hello' portrays a very similar scenario as the new #OnlyFans #lawsuit but from the eyes of one of the paid chatters... https://t.co/g6Hdknz4k7

Michelle Kicherer @M_Kicherer

2 Mar 25

Book tour, SF Chronicle feature & 4 days til pub day! https://t.co/Pi3SG5GqJs

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