DeLauné Michel
Biography
DeLauné Michel
DeLauné Michel was raised in South Louisiana in a literary family that includes her uncle, André Dubus, her mother, Elizabeth Nell Dubus, and cousin, James Lee Burke. She has worked as an actor in theater, television, and film. The first two stories Michel wrote won recognition by the Thomas Wolfe Short Fiction Award, and her later work won the Pacificus Foundation Literary Award. She is the founding producer of Spoken Interludes, a salon-style reading series where award-winning, bestselling, and up-and-coming writers read their own work. Through Spoken Interludes, she develops and runs outreach writing programs for at-risk teenagers. Aftermath of Dreaming is her first novel. Her new novel, The Safety of Secrets, is being published by Avon A/HarperCollins in May 2008. Michel lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and sons, and is currently working on her third novel.
DeLauné Michel
