Heather McElhatton
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Heather McElhatton is a writer, reporter and host for Minnesota Public Radio and Public Radio International. Her work has been heard on American radio programs such as Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money, This American Life, and The Savvy Traveler. She also produces the award winning literary series Talking Volumes.
Heather currently hosts a live variety show called Stage Sessions which is held in front of a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul, Minnesota - the same theater that hosts Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion - and then broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio. The show is a combination of storytelling, spoken word, music and more. Feature guests have included Sebastion Junger, Ann Bancroft, Kevin Kling, Bill Holm and Robert Bly.
McElhatton 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.
Her debut novel is a choose-your-own-adventure book for adults called Pretty Little Mistakes and will be published by HarperCollins in spring 2007. the book will be followed by the sequel, Million Little Mistakes in 2008.
