Heather McElhatton: Pretty Little Mistakes May 15, 2007

Heather McElhatton is a writer and independent producer
for Public Radio International. Her commentaries and
stories have been heard nationally on This American Life,
Marketplace,Weekend America, Sound Money and The
Savvy Traveler. She also produces the radio literary series
Talking Volumes. Heathers audio archive can be found at
www.mpr.org

She 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.

Heather's new radio show is called STAGE SESSIONS and
is held in front of a live audience at the Fitzgerald Theater
in St Paul, Minnesota. The show is aired on Minnesota
Public Radio a week later. Guests have included Sebastian
Junger, Ann Bancroft, Bill Holm and Robert Bly. Their work
is combined with other musicians, poets and humorists.

Besides ongoing reporting and radio commentary, Heather
will appear on Ira Glass’s television version of This
American Life, which is slated to premiere on Showtime this
winter. Her debut novel is a choose-your-own-ending book
for adults called Pretty Little Mistakes and will be
published by HarperCollins in spring 2007.

Official Website: http://www.prettylittlemistakes.com/