Heather McElhatton
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| Heather McElhatton | |
| Occupation | Radio Host, Writer |
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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 produced the award winning literary series Talking Volumes from 2001-2006.[citation needed]
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 Sebastian Junger, Ann Bancroft, Kevin Kling, Bill Holm and Robert Bly.
McElhatton has had several short stories published, including Red Shoes in Alabama and the Whore Who Wore Them 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.
McElhatton appeared on the Showtime channel in Ira Glass's first televised episode of This American Life in a segment called "Peezilla", where she recaptured her experience on a school bus when she was eight years old.
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.
HarperCollins has also commissioned her to write "The Average American Female", a companion piece to Chad Kultgen's previously published work of fiction, "Average American Male." Her book will be published in 2008.
