About Michele

Each woman’s life is a tapestry with multi-colored threads. Michele Genthon’s tapestry was woven from a career in higher education administration and a love of the arts. She added threads of teaching, acting and singing, while filling the roles of mother and wife. As her career advanced, time for the arts diminished, and her teaching took the form of mentoring women. When she “retired” early, from a Vice Chancellor position, she added the role of grandmother to three strong women and threads of full-time writing.

She writes about both historical Venetian women and First Women in the United States, women who were first to fill previously male-dominated roles. Through these stories, she celebrates the inspiration gained from women’s lives, promotes efforts to assure that women’s stories are not lost to history, and reminds today’s women of the work still remaining to be accomplished.

Raised in the South, ripened into adulthood by California sun, and honed as a professional in the Northeast and Midwest, she now makes her home in Seattle. She has traveled to several continents, visiting first and third world countries. Around the world she meets fierce women who defy expectations, creating rich tapestries with their lives.

Michele Genthon’s work has been published in Southern Women’s Review, Soundings Review, and Northwest Primetime. Her unpublished novel Child of the Red Priest was a finalist in a Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association contest. She is currently working on a novel about Elena Piscopia, the First Woman in the world to receive an academic degree.