Michael Merschel

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About Michael Merschel

Versatile editor and storyteller with extensive narrative, lifestyles and breaking-news experience. Science communicator who has written about topics from oatmeal to COVID-19 to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Books editor who managed freelancers and wrote columns, blog posts, reviews and author interviews (including Michael Chabon, Colleen Hoover and William Shatner). Event moderator who has conducted onstage interviews with authors such as Khaled Hosseini, Kwame Alexander, Susan Orlean and Dave Eggers. Freelance humorist who contributed to "A Prairie Home Companion" and Dallas' Ground Zero Theater Company. My out-of-office reply ended up in "The New York Times" and on NPR. My award-winning middle-grade novel,"Revenge of the Star Survivors," was published in 2017. Judy Blume retweeted something I wrote about her. Twice. Specialties: Narrative journalism, arts journalism, science writing, public speaking, publishing, strategic thinking, digital communications, professional writing, social media, headlines, e-mail, creative writing, fiction about nerdy middle-school students struggling to find their way in alien worlds. For rights inquiries, please contact Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Co, info@thegernertco.com.