DeLauné Michel

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DeLauné Michel was raised in south Louisiana in a literary family that includes her mother, Elizabeth Nell Dubus, her uncle André Dubus, and her cousin James Lee Burke. She has worked as an actor in theatre, TV, and film. Ms. Michel is the founding producer of Spoken Interludes, a critically-acclaimed reading series where award winning, bestselling, and up-coming writers read their work in LA and New York. Through Spoken Interludes, she has developed, has taught in, and continues to run out-reach writing programs for at-risk teenagers in the LA public schools and detention halls. Please visit, www.spokeninterludes.com. 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. She has performed her nonfiction work on NPR. Her first novel, Aftermath of Dreaming, was published by William Morrow in 2006. Her second novel, The Safety of Secrets, will be published in 2008 by Avon/HarperCollins. Ms. Michel is currently working on her third novel. She lives in Westchester County, New York with her family. For more information, please visit: www.delaunemichel.com

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