About
A little bit more about Michele…
Michele Bender has been an award-winning freelance writer for more than 25 years. She co-authors and ghostwrites books and book proposals for high-profile experts and celebrities. This entails being a thought partner and value creator who helps come up with book structure, strategy, and content. Most of her books have received five stars on Amazon. Some of these best sellers include the following, but others are ghostwritten so must be kept secret.
ONE DAY YOU’LL THANK ME: ESSAYS ON DATING, MOTHERHOOD, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN by Cameran Eubanks Wimberly, a USA TODAY Bestseller
REAL LIFE: PREPARING FOR THE 7 MOST CHALLENGING DAYS OF YOUR LIFE by Dr. Phil, NY Times Best Seller.
LOVE SMART: FIND THE ONE YOU WANT, FIX THE ONE YOU GOT by Dr. Phil, NY Times Best Seller.
BELIEVE ME: MY BATTLE WITH THE INVISIBLE DISABILITY OF LYME DISEASE by Yolanda Hadid, star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. An Amazon Best Seller just one day after publication and deemed one of the “100 Best Memoir Books of All Time” by BookAuthority in December 2018.
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RECOVERY PLAN by Susan Blum, M.D., in its 19th printing with 100,000 copies in print. Amazon's # 1 Best Seller in immunology.
SILVER HAIR: A HANDBOOK with Lorraine Massey, an Amazon Best Seller
CURLY GIRL: THE HANDBOOK by Lorraine Massey, with over 400,000 copies in print and an Amazon Best Seller.
Michele has written articles for national publications including The New York Times and almost every top magazine including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Redbook, Marie Claire, Family Circle and In Style, among many others. She has had regular health, fitness and beauty columns in many of these publications.
Michele won a National Health Information award for a Family Circle article on back pain. Also, a series of seven articles that Michele wrote for Family Circle won a Clarion Award from the Association for Women in Communications. She also won the Samter Journalism Award from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and Excellence in Media Award from the Skin Cancer Foundation.
In addition to print work, Michele has contributed interesting, energetic beauty, health & fitness content to websites such as Yahoo! Health, ivillage.com, lifescript.com and Dr. Oz’s Youbeauty.com. Michele’s essays appear in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, Chicken Soup for the College Soul and If These Walls Could Talk. Her corporate writing includes website content and copy, product packaging copy, e-blasts and newsletters, speech writing, copy for special programs and marketing materials, research reports and video scripts.
As an avid runner, Michele has completed 23 half marathons, often to raise money for children's charities like Team for Kids and the One Step Ahead Foundation. Born and raised in New York City, she earned her bachelor's degree from the School of Speech at Northwestern University and her master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Michele is the mother of two children.