DeLaune Michel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is orphaned as few or no other articles link to it. Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. (July 2006) |
| DeLaune Michel | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born | Birth date missing Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
DeLauné Michel was raised in south Louisiana in a literary family which includes her uncle Andre Dubus, her mother Elizabeth Nell Dubus, and her cousins James Lee Burke and Andre Dubus III.
She has worked as an actor in theater, television, and film. The first two stories Ms. Michel wrote won recognition by the Thomas Wolf Short Fiction Award, and later work won the Pacificus Foundation Literary Award. Her first novel, Aftermath of Dreaming, was published by William Morrow on April 11, 2006. She is currently working on her second novel which they will also publish.
Michel lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband and son.
Michel is the founding producer of Spoken Interludes, a monthly salon of dinner and readings where award-winning, best-selling, and up-coming writers read their own work. Now in its tenth year, this literary institution has been covered extensively by publications ranging from The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, GQ Magazine, LA Magazine LA Weekly, and has been heard on NPR.
Through Spoken Interludes, she developed, has taught in, and continues to run outreach writing programs for at-risk teenagers.
Spoken Interludes has shows in Los Angeles and in Westchester County.
