Heather McElhatton

Heather McElhatton

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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 appeared on Ira Glass's very first episode of the television version of This American Life. 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.

Blog Entries by Heather McElhatton

Lie To Me

Posted March 24, 2008 | 05:07 PM (EST)

My name isn't Heather Elaine McElhatton. I was born Heather Elaine Pedersen and then adopted by my semi-evil stepfather who legally changed my name, so my birth record now says he's my biological father, but he isn't. Legally I mean.

My biological father is Arthur Pedersen, but...

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Celebrating the C-Word

16 Comments | Posted October 15, 2007 | 03:07 PM (EST)

Ever want to get out of something? How badly? What is the worst thing you've done -- and this of course is between you and your God -- to escape a situation? How big was your lie, how thoughtless was your action? Ok, now compare what you're thinking of to...

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Kick Me

Posted July 13, 2007 | 03:59 PM (EST)

Paul Feig, creator of the brilliant late-'90s TV cult classic Freaks and Geeks has taken all the miserable, humiliating scenarios of his youth and made one big messy cafeteria sloppy Joe out of them, using cruel nicknames, bungled make-out sessions, embarrassing elf costumes, dangerous dodge balls, sadistic sex-ed classes, and...

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The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian

Posted June 4, 2007 | 04:02 PM (EST)

I am in love with Heather Ewing and her book, The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian. (Bloomsbury, 2007)

I am in love with the amount of research it took to reveal the real James Smithson, (1765-1829) the British...

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