Michele Bender

Michele Bender has been an award-winning freelance book and magazine writer for more than 20 years. She co-authors and ghost-writes best selling books with high-profile experts and celebrities as well as proposals. Some of these best sellers include: BELIEVE ME: MY BATTLE WITH THE INVISIBLE DISABILITY OF LYME DISEASE by Yolanda Hadid, star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RECOVERY PLAN by Susan Blum, M.D., in its 19th printing with 100,000 copies in print. SILVER HAIR: A HANDBOOK with Lorraine Massey. CURLY GIRL: THE HANDBOOK by Lorraine Massey, with over 400,000 copies in print. 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 others. She has had regular health, fitness and beauty columns in many of these publications. Michele won a 2017 National Health Information award for a Family Circle article on back pain. Also, a series of seven articles that she 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.