Sample audio: The Moth StorySlam's "The Baby Shower" [7 minutes], written and performed by Michele Kriegman, produced by Cyndi Freeman.
Event Bio [95 words]
Michele Kriegman has written and produced for ABC News, Info Security Professional Magazine, iVillage.com, Lilith, Maine Public Radio, Nippon TV, parenting magazines, Tokyo Broadcasting, and TV Asahi, among others. Having worked in a second career as a cybersecurity professional for over fifteen years, Michele now devotes herself to writing full time, focusing on two genres: cybercrime mysteries, and search and reunion novels. Her published books include Tapioca Fire, ROCK MEMOIR, From a Desert City by the Sea, and Finding Faith. She speaks as a keynote, panelist, and presenter on both technology and child welfare topics.
Short Bio [150 words]
Michele Kriegman, was born, relinquished, and adopted in New York City. She graduated from Wellesley College and received a Japanese Ministry of Education graduate scholarship to Sophia University’s Department of Mass Communications in Tokyo. There she began a journalism career at ABC News, followed by multi-year assignments with Nippon TV’s top-rated morning show, among others, and was a producer on a Gabriel Award-winning documentary on Peace Studies in Boston and Hiroshima.
Having worked in a second career as a cybersecurity professional for over fifteen years, Michele now devotes herself to writing full time, focusing on two genres: cybercrime mysteries, and search and reunion novels. Her 2014 debut novel, Tapioca Fire, written under her birth-name Suzanne Gilbert, is the prequel to The Birth-Fathers' Club Series: ROCK MEMOIR, From a Desert City by the Sea, and Finding Faith. She speaks as keynote, panelist, and presenter on both technology and child welfare topics.
Long Bio [385 words]
Michele Kriegman, an adoptee in reunion, a mother, and an adoptive step-parent, was born, relinquished, and adopted in New York City. She graduated from Wellesley College and received a Japanese Ministry of Education graduate scholarship to Sophia University’s Department of Mass Communications in Tokyo. There she began a journalism career at ABC News, followed by multi-year assignments with Nippon TV’s top-rated morning show and was a producer on a Gabriel Award-winning documentary about Peace Studies in Boston and Hiroshima. She has written and produced for Info Security Professional, iVillage.com, Lilith, Maine Public Radio, parenting magazines, Tokyo Broadcasting, and TV Asahi, among others.
Having worked in a second career as a cybersecurity professional for over fifteen years, Michele Kriegman now devotes herself to writing full time, focusing on two distinct genres: cybercrime mysteries, and search and reunion novels. On a detour that turned out not to be a detour, she translated six noted cyberpunk graphic novels from Japanese to English. Her cybersecurity and cyberpunk backgrounds inform her cybercrime mysteries. She continues to write for the cybersecurity industry and released a technical dictionary for the same audience in 2020. She has served on technology panels for fellow writers.
Although she is a storyteller by nature, like many adoptees she was missing her own backstory well into adulthood. Finding her birth-father in New York before the state opened its records helped complete it. Most recently, a DNA test kit that came as a Chrismukkah present revealed an unknown sister! Their shared birth-father, and his complex effort at redemption later in life, inspired the 2022 novel Finding Faith: Book 3 of the Birth-Fathers’ Club Series. Other novels in the series are ROCK MEMOIR and From a Desert City by the Sea. She reclaimed her birth-name, Suzanne Gilbert, to write her debut novel, Tapioca Fire, in 2014.
Michele Kriegman teaches writing workshops for adoptees and donor-conceived people finding their #ownvoices. She is a requested conference keynote speaker and presenter for child welfare professionals, adoptive/intentional parents, and adult adoptees/donor-conceived people on several themes, including “Waiting, Creating, & Finding Family: Past, Present, & Fiction”. Her well-researched approach isn’t overly academic; she’s been an in-the-trenches adoptive step-mom too.
With this session of the U.S. Supreme Court, the focus of many of Michele's public talks is the Indian Child Welfare Act, a new battlefield in the culture wars, which played a pivotal role in her own story.
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