Michelle Kennedy is an author, columnist and the mother of four children. She has authored a series of parenting books called the Last Straw Strategies published by Barron's.
Her memoir, Without a Net: Middle-Class and Homeless (With Kids) in America, will be published by Viking in February of 2005, and is the story of a year in the life of her and three of her children. They spent part of that year living in their car and trying to find a permanent home. An excerpt of the book was recently nominated for a 2004 Pushcart Prize.
To read a bit of what the memoir is about, read the essay that inspired it at Salon.com.
In her brief years on Earth, Michelle has also been a waitress, bartender, nursing assistant, tour guide for Ben and Jerry's, restaurant owner, farmer, musher, bread-baker, and page in the U.S. Senate...a few other things too. Michelle was born in Baltimore, Maryland and now resides in Vermont where she goes to T-Ball games and tries desperately to turn her black gardening thumb into a green one.
Michelle has been published in:
Family Circle
Redbook
The New York Times
The Christian Science Monitor
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Green Bay News-Chronicle
The Green Bay Press Gazette
Fox Cities Newspaper
The Herald of Randolph
Salon.com
Brain, Child Magazine
ParentingHumor.com
Witwords.com
PhillyMama.com
To talk with Michelle, e-mail her at misha@mishakennedy.com.
