Michelle Wildgen
Consultant
About Michelle
Michelle Wildgen has over twenty years of experience as an editor and writer, including 18 years with the award-winning literary journal Tin House. She is the author of three novels: You’re Not You, which was a NYT Editor’s Choice and was made into a feature film starring Hilary Swank; But Not For Long; and Bread and Butter. Her essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times Book Review and “Modern Love” column, Tin House, as well as O Magazine, Real Simple, The Writer, Best Food Writing, and in anthologies like Death by Pad Thai and Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer. Her short fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly and elsewhere. In 2013, with novelist Susanna Daniel, she cofounded the Madison Writers’ Studio, which offers small MFA-level workshops in fiction and nonfiction in Madison, Wisconsin, and has taught at UW-Madison, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and the Tin House Writer's Workshop, where she has mentored individual writers and consulted on their book manuscripts since 2005. You can find out more at www.michellewildgen.com or www.madisonwriters.com.